Search Results for handy

...Jim Handy What is new and pathbreaking is the way Grandin links local history and local lives to this struggle for democracy and to the violence that confronted that dream. Through careful archival work in national and local collections and, most especially, oral testimony from a diverse range...

...Jim Handy Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 In his 1953 address to the Guatemalan congress, President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán declared, “The Agrarian Reform Law begins the economic transformation of Guatemala; it is the most precious fruit of the revolution and the fundamental base...

...Jim Handy Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala . By Nelson Diane M. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2009 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxxvii , 403 pp. Paper , $25.95 . Cloth , $94.95 . Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

...Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. Handy’s Gift will hardly be welcomed by defenders of the old elite or by those who remain committed to the liberal tradition, which has dominated much of Guatemala’s historiography for more than a century. Handy represents, both in his own research and in his synthesis...

...Stephen Webre Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954 . By Handy Jim . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1994 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 272 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Paper , $15.95...

... Handy on the corporate community, campesino organizations, and agrarian reform, 1950-1954; by John Watanabe on the community in the western periphery; by Carol Smith on class position and consciousness in Totonicapán in the 1970s; and by Arturo Arias on changing Indian identity. While space does...

... accounts, this new addition to the Facts on File series will be a handy reference tool for Latin Americanists interested in contemporary Argentina. Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Argentina and Perón, 1970-1975 . Edited by Sobel Lester A. . New York , 1975 . Facts on File...

..., making this a handy general tool for students of the Hispano-Luso-American world. Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Latin America, Spain, and Portugal: An Annotated Bibliography of Paperback Books . Compiled by Dorn Georgette Magassy . 2d ed. Washington , 1976 . Library...

... first published in 1970 under the same title, this volume constitutes a handy reference for those persons needing brief biographical sketches of Latin American government officials. The study is arranged by country and includes presidents, vice-presidents, cabinet ministers, leading diplomats and church...

... countries. Despite the unevenness of selection and presentation, this remains a handy guide for quick reference. ...

... relationships among the themes which run through these distinctive writings. One who is interested in an uncluttered presentation of ECLA views or a handy reference for quotes from ECLA will find this to be an extremely useful document. ...

... a portrait of O’Higgins as soldier, statesman or man. We learn that he was un varón ilustre and that he loved the fatherland. The volume could serve as a handy tool for the Chilean militarist or politician in search of a quotation for use in independence orations. Those wishing to learn something...

... 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Anyone wanting a handy guide to prominent Panamanian political and literary figures, unusual Panamanian expressions and customs, Panamanian geographical locations, and basic data on political parties and international relations of Panama will welcome this book...

... boundaries), population, economic activity, transportation, and surface geology. Although the most recent data for the atlas is from 1974, this should nevertheless be a handy tool for Central Americanists. ...

... decade. It will be most valuable for obscure proper names, both of persons and of organizations. Definitions of Spanish- and Portuguese-language terms will also be handy to supplement conventional dictionaries. A minor regret: The revising editor ignored two comments of the last HAHR reviewer about...

... in Latin America during the nineteenth century is clearly demonstrated. Most of the essays have been published before by scholarly journals in the United States. Translating them into Portuguese and publishing them in a single, handy volume is a welcome service. ...

... of Arbenz as an economic nationalist or reformer. He also reassigned a portion of responsibility to the Guatemalan military, which ultimately betrayed Arbenz and allowed Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas to march unopposed into Guatemala City. Jim Handy mined the archives of Guatemala’s Agrarian Reform...

... the period from 1901 to 1913. Despite the author’s characteristic pretentiousness in designating his effort the “true history” of the Mexican Revolution, scholars should find Taracena’s expanded chronological synthesis a handy reference. Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 La verdadera...

... of books and authors are unavoidable, but in the context of the overall presentation, Professor Wilgus achieves a remarkable balance. This book is an indispensable aide memoire , a unique and very handy guide. The Historiography of Latin America: A Guide to Historical Writing, 1500-1800...

... significant names, places, organizations, and events concerning Mexico’s colonial and national histories. They have appended an up-to-date Spanish and English bibliography listing approximately 350 books. This is a useful, handy reference tool that should be of interest to most Mexicanists. ...