The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution

From: The Americas | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Levenson, Deborah | Copyright information

The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution. By Cindy Forster. Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 287. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Works Cited. Index. $34.95 cloth.

Cindy Forster's excellent book is a page-turning account of the lives and social struggles of Mayan and ladino poor people in the towns and countryside of the department of San Marcos and at the United Fruit Company in Tiquisate during Guatemala's 1944-1954 revolu...

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