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Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey L. Gould is James H. Rudy Professor of History and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Indiana. His books include To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880–1965, also published by Duke University Press. He is a co-producer and co-director of the documentary film Scars of Memory: El Salvador, 1932.Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823–1914 and a coeditor of Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext New perspective on the 1932 insurrection by rural and indigenous laborers in El Salvador-- a defining moment of modern Central American history-- shedding light on the origins of this event and on the long-term cultural and political consequences of its Zusammenfassung An investigation of the January 1932 massacre of thousands of rural laborers in El Salvador and its long-term cultural and political consequences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix 1. Garden of Despair: the Political Economy of Class, Land, and Labor, 1920-1929 1 2. A Bittersweet Transition: Politics and Labor in the 1920s 32 3. Fiestas of the Oppressed: The Social Geography and Culture of Mobilization 63 4. "Ese Trabajo Era Enteramente de los Naturales": Ethnic Conflict and Mestizaje in Western Salvador, 1914-1931 99 5. "To the Face of the Entire World": Repression and Radicalization, September 1931-January 1932 132 6. Red Ribbons and Machetes: The Insurrection of January 1932 170 7. "They Killed the Just for the Sinners": The Counterrevolutionary Massacres 209 8. Memories of La Matanza: The Political and Cultural Consequences of 1932 240 Epilogue 275 Afterword 281 Notes 291 Bibliography 343 Index 355...
