Forster, Cindy The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution.(Brief Article)

From: History: Review of New Books | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Ching, Erik | Copyright information

Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press 304 pp. $34.95, ISBN: 0-8229-4162-7 Publication Date: September 2001

The Time of Freedom is the long-awaited culmination of Cindy Forster's research on rural labor during the October Revolution in Guatemala (1944-54). Forster has gained high regard for her prior articles and book chapters and particularly for the richly textured oral interviews she marshals as evidence.

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