After the Coup: An Ethnographic Reframing of Guatemala 1954

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This exceptional collection revisits the aftermath of the 1954 coup that ousted the democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz. Contributors frame the have an effect on of 1954 not only relating to the liberal reforms and coffee revolutions of the nineteenth century, but additionally relating to post-1954 U.S. foreign policy and the genocide of the 1970s and 1980s. This volume is of particular interest within the current era of the US’ re-emerging foreign policy in response to preemptive strikes and a presumed clash of civilizations.
 
Recent research and the release of newly declassified U.S. government documents underscore the importance of reading Guatemala’s current history throughout the lens of 1954. Scholars and researchers who have worked in Guatemala from the 1940s to the present articulate how the coup fits into ethnographic representations of Guatemala. Highlighting the voices of individuals with whom they have got lived and worked, the contributors also offer an unmatched working out of how the events preceding and following the coup played out at the ground.
 
Contributors are Abigail E. Adams, Richard N. Adams, David Carey Jr., Christa Little-Siebold, Judith M. Maxwell, Victor D. Montejo, June C. Nash, and Timothy J. Smith.

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