Shattered Hope : : The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 /

Shattered Hope : : The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 / / Piero Gleijeses.

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 Pi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Gleijeses, Piero,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©1992
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (464 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Documentation
  • Abbreviations
  • Map
  • PROLOGUE. Witnesses
  • CHAPTER 1. The Era of Ubico
  • CHAPTER 2. The Presidency of Juan Jose Arévalo
  • CHAPTER 3. The Death of Francisco Arana
  • CHAPTER 4. The Election of Jacobo Arbenz
  • CHAPTER 5. The United States and Arévalo: Arévalo’s Sins
  • CHAPTER 6. The United States and Arévalo: The U.S. Response
  • CHAPTER 7. The World of Jacobo Arbenz
  • CHAPTER 8. The Agrarian Reform
  • CHAPTER 9. The Revolutionary Forces
  • CHAPTER 10. The “Christian” Opposition
  • CHAPTER 11. The International Conspiracy against Guatemala
  • CHAPTER 12. The Caracas Conference
  • CHAPTER 13. The Agony of the Regime
  • CHAPTER 14. The Fall of Arbenz
  • CHAPTER 15. Conclusion
  • EPILOGUE. The Fate of the Defeated
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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