The Battle For Guatemala: Rebels, Death Squads, And U.s. Power
- ISBN-10
- 0813306140
- ISBN-13
- 9780813306148
- Category
- History / Latin America / General
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991-09-02
- Publisher
- Avalon Publishing
- Authors
- Susanne Jonas, Susanne Jonas Bodenheimer
Description
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword, Edelberto Torres Rivas -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Theoretical Considerations and Guatemalan Realities -- Major Protagonists and Themes of the Battle for Guatemala -- Notes -- PART 1 Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1944-1970 -- 1 Legacies of the Past: 1524-1944 -- Notes -- 2 The Revolution of 1944-1954: "The Democracy That Gave Way -- Spiritual Socialism" in Power -- National Capitalism on Trial -- The United States Responds -- Perspectives on the "Liberation, -- Reinterpreting Guatemala's Democratic Revolution -- Notes -- 3 Counterrevolution and Imperialism -- The Ruling Coalition of the Counterrevolution -- Economic Foundations: Export-led Growth -- Industrialization and Foreign Investment -- The Central American Common Market -- The Nickel Mirage -- Notes -- 4 Rebels and Death Squads I: The 1960s -- Politics of Counterrevolution and Terror -- Sources of Resistance: The Beginning of Guatemala's Thirty Years' War -- Counterinsurgency Laboratory for Latin America -- Notes -- PART 2 Crisis, 1970-1990 -- 5 Economic Growth and Crises of the 1970s and 1980s -- Modernization of the Capitalist Economy -- Rural Subsistence Crisis: The Other Side of Capitalist Growth -- External Shocks and Generalized Economic Crisis in the 1980s -- The Neoliberal Response and the Paquetazos of 1989 -- Notes -- 6 Social Polarization, Social Crisis Evolution of the Bourgeoisie -- Evolution of the Bourgeoisie -- The Ruling Coalition and the Role of the Army -- Social Crisis and Changes in the Proletariat -- Notes -- 7 Ethnic and Gender Dimensions of Crisis -- New Ways of Being Indian -- Roots of the Indian Uprising -- Gender, the Unexplored Dimension -- The "Popular Bloc, -- Notes -- 8 Political Crises of the 1970s -- State and Counterinsurgency State: Theoretical Considerations
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