Shattered Hope (eBook)

The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954

Piero Gleijeses (Autor)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4349-7 (ISBN)

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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 Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "e;convenient villain."e; "e;Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup."e;--Foreign Affairs "e;Piero Gleijeses offers a historical road map that may serve as a guide for future generations. . . . [Readers] will come away with an understanding of the foundation of a great historical tragedy."e;--Saul Landau, The Progressive "e;[Gleijeses's] academic rigor does not prevent him from creating an accessible, lucid, almost journalistic account of an episode whose tragic consequences still reverberate."e;--Paul Kantz, Commonweal

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état • activism • Adviser • agrarian reform • Alexander, Robert • Allende, Salvador • Allen Dulles • americans • Anti-Americanism • Anti-Communism • Arbenz, Jacobo • Argentina • assistant secretary • Atlantic Highway • ballot • banana republic • base militar • Batista, Fulgencio • Bay of Pigs • Bolivia • bureaucrat • Cabot, Thomas • Captive Nations • Caracas • Caribbean Legion • Carlos Castillo Armas • Castillo, Adolfo • Castillo Flores, Leonardo • Caudillo • Central America • Central Committee • Chief of the Armed Forces (Switzerland) • communism • Communist propaganda • Corcoran, Thomas • Costa Rica • coup d'état • covert operation • culture of fear • czechoslovakia • decimal • Decree • Decree 900 • defection • Demoralization (warfare) • Denby, Alfred • Dictatorship • Dominican Republic • Dulles, Allen • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Eisenhower, Milton • El Tamarindo • Employment • Escuela Claridad • Esquipulas • Expropriation • Extremism • Fellow traveller • Fisher, Clark • foreign policy • Fulgencio Batista • Galeano, Jesús • Galich, Manuel • García, Pedro Julio • Godoy, César • Guatemala • Guatemala City • Guatemalan Revolution • guatemalans • Guillén, Terencio • Harry S. Truman • Hernández, Jorge • Honduras • hostility • Houston, Lawrence • imperialism • Inauguration • Izaguirre, César • jacobo • Jacobo Árbenz • Johnson, Lyndon • Keilhauer, Minor • Krieg, William • laborer • Labour movement • Land Tenure • Latin America • Lebanon • Leddy, Raymond • Legislation • Mármol, Miguel • Marxism • Marxism–Leninism • McCarthyism • Member of Congress • middle class • Momotombito • newspaper • Nicaragua • Non-Interventionism • Novotny, Antonín • Oil companies • Operation Hardrock • Opportunism • Organization of American States • Panama • Party leader • Patzicia • peasant • Persecution • Peurifoy, John • Political Freedom • Political Party • Politician • Politics • Pretext • Psychological Warfare • Publication • Puerto Barrios • Puerto Rico • Quetzaltenango • Radicalization • Renovación Nacional (RN) • Republic • Resignation • revolutionary parties • rhetoric • Slavery • Sovereignty • Soviet Union • Standard Fruit • Subversion • Tax • Tegucigalpa • The New York Times • Toriello, Guillermo • Trade Union • Turnbull, Walter • Undersecretary • United Fruit Company • United States • United States Department of State • Upper Class • warfare • Western Hemisphere • World War II • zacapa
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4349-9 / 1400843499
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4349-7 / 9781400843497