Revolution in the Countryside

“A thoroughgoing, archivally based treatment of agrarian reform. . . . An important and engaging study of an immensely complicated subject.” — American Historical Review

“An extensively researched, penetrating study of one of the most fascinating episodes in modern Latin America, Guatemala’s October Revolution, 1944-54.” — Journal of Third World Studies

“A fine and careful piece of scholarship on a period of immense social change and political uncertainty. It provides a balanced and detailed picture of one of the most important and complex periods in recent Latin American history. . . . This is a first-rate work, even more welcome because it is long overdue.” — Richard N. Adams, University of Texas at Austin

“Likely to become the standard treatment of Guatemala’s 1952–54 land reform and of the political and social conflict that surrounded it. Based on previously untapped material and offering a range of new interpretations, [this book] is essential to understanding the violence that has rent that country for the past forty years.” — David McCreery, Georgia State University