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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This City Belongs to You deserves attention from a broad audience....
This book shows that it some ways, Guatemala City was ahead of the curve of world events like the student protests of 1968, forcing us to reconsider some well-established narratives about who and what inspired the radical movements of the 1960s. Guatemala and its capital city have a lot to tell us about the forces that have shaped the contemporary world.... It is a history relevant to us all." * H-Net *
"Heather Vrana’s
This City Belongs to You: A History ofStudent Activism in Guatemala, 1944–1996 is the first English-language history of student politics in Guatemala and joins a new wave of scholarship on Guatemala City. ... this is an invaluable, timely, and engaging book that will significantly broaden our thinking about students—especially given its astute attention to how student nationalism changed—and about the making of the middle class, both in Guatemala and elsewhere." * Hispanic American Historical Review *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: “Do Not Mess with Us!”
1 • The Republic of Students, 1942–1952
2 • Showcase for Democracy, 1953–1957
3 • A Manner of Feeling, 1958–1962
4 • Go Forth and Teach All, 1963–1977
5 • Combatants for the Common Cause, 1976–1978
6 • Student Nationalism without a Government, 1977–1980
Coda: “Ahí van los estudiantes!” 1980–Present
Notes
Bibliography
Index
