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1 online resource (1 volume) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Preface; 1 STATEMENT OF INQUIRY FOR THE STUDY OF INTERVENTION; Concepts and Assumptions; Brief Critique of the Theoretical Construct of Dependency; 2 DEVELOPMENT: A CRITIQUE; Political Development and the Critique of Political Science; 3 TOWARD A GENERAL THEORETICAL CONSTRUCT OF DEPENDENCY; An Alternative to ""Normal"" Political Science: A Theoretical Construct of Dependency; 4 THE RISE AND FALL OP UBICO; Brief Summary of Pre-Revolutionary Land Tenure Patterns 1930-1944 |
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5 THE STRUGGLE FOR REVOLUTIONARY SURVIVALRevolutionary Politics and the Search for Social Justice; General Lines of Guatemalan Foreign Policy During the Arévalo Administration; Reappraisal and Legacy of Arévalo and the ""Revolution; 6 THE LAND TENURE PATTERN OF GUATEMALA AND THE AGRARIAN REFORM LAW OF 1952; General Description of the Man to Land Relationship Prevalent in Guatemala, 1950; The Agrarian Reform Law of 1952; Implementation of the Agrarian Reform Law of 1952; 7 THE EXPROPRIATION OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND GUATEMALAN DEPENDENCY ON THE UNITED STATES; UFCO: Object of Decree 900 |
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Evaluation of the Cumulative Effect of Decree 900Dependency and Guatemalan Foreign Policy, 1951-1953; An Appraisal of Arbenz's First Two Years in Office; 8 IN DEFENSE OF THE UFCO: UNITED STATES INTERVENTION IN GUATEMALA; Latin American Acquiescence to United States Designsi The Tenth Inter-American Conference, Caracas, Venezuela, March 1954; Agenda for the Intervention: United States Preparations for the Overthrow of the Arbenz Administration; 9 THE GUATEMALAN APPEAL BEFORE THE OAS AND UN; Guatemala and the International Organizations: A Futile Essay into Cold War Politics |
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United States Diplomacy and ""Covert Para-Military Operations"": Two Aspects of Intervention, the Case of Guatemala10 CONCLUSIONS AND GENERAL OBSERVATIONS; Internal Manifestations of the Dependency Relationship; The Agrarian Reform of 1952: An Abortive Challenge to United States Dominance; Dependency, A Euphemism for Continuous ""Peaceful"" Intervention: Theory and; Prognosis; APPENDIX A United Nations Charter; APPENDIX B; Table 1: Value of Selected Guatemalan Exports; Table 2: Distribution of Exports by Region; Table 3: Value of Guatemalan Coffee Exports by Region |
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Table 4: Distribution of Imports by RegionBIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
This book describes the interlocking relationship of government and multinational corporations (MNCs) that led to U.S. intervention in Guatemala in 1954. It explains the intervention in terms of the continuous penetration of the extended domain of the metropole |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Land reform -- Guatemala -- History -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Diplomatic relations
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Land reform
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Guatemala -- History -- Revolution, 1954.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057646
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Guatemala -- Foreign relations -- United States
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Guatemala
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Guatemala
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429047466 |
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0429047460 |
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9780429706448 |
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0429706448 |
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9780429746468 |
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0429746466 |
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9780429726453 |
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0429726457 |
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