Case Studies in Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare
Case Studies in Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare

Author: Bert Cooper

Publisher:

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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Contents: Factors Inducing Revolution--Economic Maladjustment; Social Antogonism; Political Weakness; Dynamics of Revolution--Composition of Revolutionary Actors; Revolutionary Strategy and Goals; Ideology or Myth; Organization of the Revolutionary Movement; Techniques of the Revolution; and Active Involvement of Foreign Powers.

Ladina Social Activism in Guatemala City, 1871-1954
Ladina Social Activism in Guatemala City, 1871-1954

Author: Patricia Harms

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2020-05-01

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0826361463

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In this groundbreaking new study on ladinas in Guatemala City, Patricia Harms contests the virtual erasure of women from the country’s national memory and its historical consciousness. Harms focuses on Spanish-speaking women during the “revolutionary decade” and the “liberalism” periods, revealing a complex, significant, and palpable feminist movement that emerged in Guatemala during the 1870s and remained until 1954. During this era ladina social activists not only struggled to imagine a place for themselves within the political and social constructs of modern Guatemala, but they also wrestled with ways in which to critique and identify Guatemala’s gendered structures within the context of repressive dictatorial political regimes and entrenched patriarchy. Harms’s study of these women and their struggles fills a sizeable gap in the growing body of literature on women’s suffrage, social movements, and political culture in modern Latin America. It is a valuable addition to students and scholars studying the rich history of the region.

Shattered Hope
Shattered Hope

Author: Piero Gleijeses

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 1400843499

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The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup."--Foreign Affairs "Piero Gleijeses offers a historical road map that may serve as a guide for future generations. . . . [Readers] will come away with an understanding of the foundation of a great historical tragedy."--Saul Landau, The Progressive "[Gleijeses's] academic rigor does not prevent him from creating an accessible, lucid, almost journalistic account of an episode whose tragic consequences still reverberate."--Paul Kantz, Commonweal

Managing the Counterrevolution
Managing the Counterrevolution

Author: Stephen M. Streeter

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0896802159

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The Eisenhower administration's intervention in Guatemala is one of the most closely studied covert operations in the history of the Cold War. Yet we know far more about the 1954 coup itself than its aftermath. This book uses the concept of "counterrevolution" to trace the Eisenhower administration's efforts to restore U.S. hegemony in a nation whose reform governments had antagonized U.S. economic interests and the local elite. Comparing the Guatemalan case to U.S.-sponsored counterrevolutions in Iran, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, and Chile reveals that Washington's efforts to roll back "communism" in Latin America and elsewhere during the Cold War represented in reality a short-term strategy to protect core American interests from the rising tide of Third World nationalism.