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...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...

... from the fact that Jim seemed to have so many lives that he could not possibly die — that somehow he would magically pop up somewhere. After all, he had transformed himself from a translator in the army to a comparative literature student to a historian enmeshed in the intricate details of the social...

...John V. Lombardi * The author is Professor of History at Indiana University. Copyright 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 When faced with the untimely death of a friend and a colleague, we feel most the tremendous sense of loss and promise unfulfilled. Jim Scobie’s sudden death...

...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...