Revolution In The Countryside

Author : Jim Handy
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861899

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Revolution in the Countryside by Jim Handy Pdf

Although most discussions of the Guatemalan "revolution" of 1944-54 focus on international and national politics, Revolution in the Countryside presents a more complex and integrated picture of this decade. Jim Handy examines the rural poor, both Maya and Ladino, as key players who had a decisive impact on the nature of change in Guatemala. He looks at the ways in which ethnic and class relations affected government policy and identifies the conflict generated in the countryside by new economic and social policies. Handy provides the most detailed discussion yet of the Guatemalan agrarian reform, and he shows how peasant organizations extended its impact by using it to lay claim to land, despite attempts by agrarian officials and the president to apply the law strictly. By focusing on changes in rural communities, and by detailing the coercive measures used to reverse the "revolution in the countryside" following the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, Handy provides a framework for interpreting more recent events in Guatemala, especially the continuing struggle for land and democracy.

Author : R. C. Richardson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 0719034620

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Town and Countryside in the English Revolution by R. C. Richardson Pdf

Scholars tend to specialize in either urban or agrarian history, and the whole picture of an era or event is never entirely pieced together. Ten essays seek to close the gap by considering the impact of the 17th-century civil war on both the towns and the countryside, emphasizing both the divergence and similarity of experiences. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Carmen Soliz
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822988106

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Fields of Revolution by Carmen Soliz Pdf

Fields of Revolution examines the second largest case of peasant land redistribution in Latin America and agrarian reform—arguably the most important policy to arise out of Bolivia’s 1952 revolution. Competing understandings of agrarian reform shaped ideas of property, productivity, welfare, and justice. Peasants embraced the nationalist slogan of “land for those who work it” and rehabilitated national union structures. Indigenous communities proclaimed instead “land to its original owners” and sought to link the ruling party discourse on nationalism with their own long-standing demands for restitution. Landowners, for their part, embraced the principle of “land for those who improve it” to protect at least portions of their former properties from expropriation. Carmen Soliz combines analysis of governmental policies and national discourse with everyday local actors’ struggles and interactions with the state to draw out the deep connections between land and people as a material reality and as the object of political contention in the period surrounding the revolution.

Author : Jim Handy
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0807844381

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Revolution in the Countryside by Jim Handy Pdf

Although most discussions of the Guatemalan "revolution" of 1944-54 focus on international and national politics, Revolution in the Countryside presents a more complex and integrated picture of this decade. Jim Handy examines the rural poor, both M

Author : Orlando Figes
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1842124218

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Peasant Russia, Civil War by Orlando Figes Pdf

From the preface Many historians outside the Soviet Union have sought to explain why the Bolsheviks won the civil war. Some have focused on the military history of 1918-20. Others have connected the victory of the Red Army to the growth of the Soviet State. But none has made a detailed study of the relationship between the Bolsheviks and the peasantry, the overwhelming majority of the Russian population, during the formative years of the Soviet regime. None has seriously investigated the ways in which the Bolshevik victory was made possible by the transformation of the Russian countryside in the years leading up to and during the revolution. That is the purpose of this book.

Author : Peter McPhee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:1336111811

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The Politics of Rural Life by Peter McPhee Pdf

Author : Robin Yassin-Kassab,Leila Al-Shami
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Syria
ISBN : 1783718013

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Burning Country by Robin Yassin-Kassab,Leila Al-Shami Pdf

In 2011, Syrians took to the streets to demand the overthrow of the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a war-zone where foreign journalists find it almost impossible to go. Burning Country explores the reality of life in present-day Syria. Drawn from over fifteen years of work with the people of Syria, it reveals the stories of opposition fighters, exiles lost in an archipelago of refugee camps, and many others. Examining new grassroots revolutionary organisations, the rise of ISIS and Islamism, and the emergence of the worst refugee crisis since World War Two, Burning Country is a vivid account of a modern-day political and humanitarian nightmare. -- from back cover.

Author : Alexander Avina
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199396689

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Specters of Revolution by Alexander Avina Pdf

The 1960s represented a revolutionary moment around the globe. In rural Mexico, several guerrilla groups organized to fight against the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Specters of Revolution chronicles two peasant guerrilla organizations led by schoolteachers, the National Revolutionary Civil Association (ACNR) and the Party of the Poor (PDLP), which waged revolutionary armed struggles to overthrow the PRI. Both emerged to fight decades of massacres and everyday forms of terror committed by the government against citizen social movements that demanded the redemption of constitutional rights. This book reveals that these movements developed after years of seeking legal, constitutional pathways of redress, focused on economic justice and electoral rights, and became subject to brutal counterinsurgencies. Relying upon recently declassified intelligence and military documents and oral histories, it documents how long-held rural utopian ideals drove peasant political action that gradually became radicalized in the face of persistent state terror and violence. Placing Mexico into the broader history of post-1945 Latin America, Specters of Revolution explodes the myth that Mexico constituted an island of relative peace and stability surrounded by a sea of military dictatorships during the Cold War.

Author : Jill Maciak Walshaw
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580464796

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A Show of Hands for the Republic by Jill Maciak Walshaw Pdf

A fresh perspective on rural responses to the French Revolution, using sedition investigations to reveal how villagers took their place on the political stage.

Author : Jeremy Krikler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003457558

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Revolution from Above, Rebellion from Below by Jeremy Krikler Pdf

This is a study of rural life and struggle in the Transvaal during the watershed period of the 1890s and 1900s. Though much has been written about the South African War, this is the first scholarly and comprehensive analysis of its impact on agrarian relations and agrarian production. Krikler examines Afrikaner farming methods and tenantry systems, traces the wartime "peasants' revolt", and explores the agricultural modernization attempted by the British after the war. It is an original, thoroughly researched and lucidly written account, which illuminates our understanding of the South African War and its aftermath, and offers new insights into peasant societies during the colonial period.

Author : Graeme J. Gill
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076006726793

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Peasants and Government in the Russian Revolution by Graeme J. Gill Pdf

Author : Mark R. Baker (History professor),Mark Robert Baker
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Kharkiv (Ukraine)
ISBN : 1932650156

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Peasants, Power, and Place by Mark R. Baker (History professor),Mark Robert Baker Pdf

Mark R. Baker focuses on Ukrainian-speaking peasants during the 1914-1921 revolutionary period. Arguing that the peasants of Kharkiv province thought of themselves primarily as members of their particular village communities, and not as members of any nation or class, he advances the historiography beyond the ideologized categories of the Cold War.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1794
Category : France
ISBN : OSU:32435017640152

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An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Author : Colin G. Calloway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521475694

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The American Revolution in Indian Country by Colin G. Calloway Pdf

Examines the Native American experience during the American Revolution.

Author : Matthias Middell,Megan Maruschke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110619775

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The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization by Matthias Middell,Megan Maruschke Pdf

The French Revolution has primarily been understood as a national event that also had a lasting impact in Europe and in the Atlantic world. Recently, historiography has increasingly emphasized how France’s overseas colonies also influenced the contours of the French Revolution. This volume examines the effects of both dimensions on the reorganization of spatial formats and spatial orders in France and in other societies. It departs from the assumption that revolutions shatter not only the political and economic old regime order at home but, in an increasingly interdependent world, also result in processes of respatialization. The French Revolution, therefore, is analysed as a key event in a global history that seeks to account for the shifting spatial organization of societies on a transregional scale.