Daniel Wilkinson

Silence on the Mountain

Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Author reconstructs the unwritten, taboo history of the Guatemalan civil war, focusing on the peasants who picked coffee, supported guerrilla movements of the 1970s and 1980s, and suffered the most when the military government retaliated with violence.

Produktdetails

• American Encounters/Global Interactions
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780822333685
• ISBN-10: 0822333686
• Artikelnr.: 13657647

Autorenporträt

Daniel Wilkinson is Managing Director, Americas Division at Human Rights Watch.

Inhaltsangabe

I. A House Burned
The Owner 3
The Student 7
The Battlefield 11
Exhumation 19
II. Ashes Fell
Rumor 29
Travelogue 32
Natural History 42
Bildungsroman 48
Revelation 56
Decree 65
III. A Future Was Buried
A Dangerous Question 83
The Law That Would Change the World 157
Betrayal 168
Burials 180
IV. And They Were the Eruption
The Savages 193
Sacuhum 199
The Guerrillas 217
The Politicians 252
The Terrorist 307
The Defeated 337
The Storytellers 350
List of Names 361
Notes on Sources 362
Selected Bibliography 367
Acknowledgments 372
Index 374