Jim Handy
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 131964 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jim Handy |
| NOMBRES | Jim |
| APELLIDO | Handy |
| FIRMA | HANDY J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Saskatchewan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6593-7441 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Enclosure of Knowledge
In the second edition of the Economist newspaper in September 1843, the paper celebrated the fact that “active and intelligent landlords . . . [were] breaking up the hard clods of ignorance . . . [and] the art of husbandry, is rapidly changing into the science of agriculture.” Whether one accepts the Economist's assessment of the changing nature of agriculture in England in 1843 or not, James Fisher's fascinating book demonstrates clearly how lon…
The enchantment of property
English agricultural practice changed dramatically in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as enclosure, the dominance of commercial short-term leases for tenant farmers, and the proletarianization of the agricultural labour force completed what has been called an agricultural revolution. A less often noted aspect of this change was what was called "a war on cottages" and cottage gardens. The Board of Agriculture and Arthur Young were important…
A Terrible Necessity
This article analyzes the writings on India of The Economist newspaper from 1843 to the 1860s. It argues that despite the adherence of the paper to the ideas of laissez-faire nineteenth-century liberal ideas of political economy, its writing on India - and the political career of its founder and editor, James Wilson - demonstrate a ready embrace of empire, government intervention in the economy, and increased taxation. The article suggests this d…
The Free Exercise of Self-Love”
This article uses the writings of The Economist on Ireland during the potato famine as a means to explore ideas about liberal political economy in nineteenth-century Britain. The article argues that Ireland presented such an extreme case that contemporary writing about it allows readers to see the assumptions that lay behind ideas of liberal political economy in relation to land, government involvement in the economy, and peasant proprietorship
Reckoning
Diane Nelson’s previous book, Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Gua-temala, was a masterpiece: an evocative and frighteningly insightful discussion of the multiplicity and fluidity of identity in Guatemala. In that book, her propensity to explore the difficulty of fixing a meaning to words was an essential aspect of her exploration of the slipperiness of identity in Guatemala as the country struggled away from war.Given the bri…
Almost idiotic wretchedness
From the late eighteenth century in Britain to the late twentieth century in predominantly rural societies in the global south, most descriptions of peasants provided by government planners or economists have been remarkably similar. These descriptions focus on five alleged elements of peasant life: (1) peasants are backward and uncivilised - one aspect of that backwardness is their inability to control their sexual urges and thus their tendency …
Courage Tastes of Blood
The Last Colonial Massacre
This ambitious book explores the ways U.S. cold-war policies helped frustrate the spread of democratic politics in Latin America, using Guatemala (especially the events leading to the 1978 Panzos massacre in northeastern Guatemala) as an example. It also concerns local politics and how peasants in the Polochic Valley embraced a form of democracy and resistance. The book succeeds in all aspects, but it is much more effective in the last discussion…
Chicken Thieves, Witches, and Judges
This article explores the reasons for the spread of vigilante justice (linchamientos) in contemporary Guatemala. It investigates three specific linchamientos and suggests that the roots of such vigilante justice lie in a collapsing peasant economy, insecurity of all sorts, and an unravelling of the social fabric in rural communities through the militarisation of rural Guatemala.The article also argues that linchamientos are caused partly by a con…
Democratizing What? Some Reflections on Nation, State, Ethnicity, Modernity, Community and Democracy in Guatemala
This article explores the roots of the difficulties encountered in constructing an effective democracy in Guatemala that meets the needs of Mayan people and Mayan communities. It explores the successes apparent in fostering the acceptance of the idea of Guatemala as a multilingual and pluriethnic entity. Nonetheless, it suggests that there has been tremendous difficulty and significant opposition to effective incorporation of those ideas. It expl…
Revolution in the Countryside
Demilitarizing Community in Guatemala
One of the most important struggles which has occurred in Guatemala during the last few years is the attempt by residents in highland villages to demilitarize their communities. Community members have bravely protested the presence of the military in their towns, demanding the end of the civil patrols and forced recruitment. This struggle is linked to other movements headed by Guatemalan Maya which seek to reshape Guatemalan society and politics …
The United States in Central America, 1860-1911
Anxiety and Dread
A Sea of Indians”
The Indian is an inexhaustable layer of exploitation and his best song is his taciturnity.... Guatemala is sad; a desperate, horrid, fearful sadness ... a sad people living with a totally alien world within us. (Ernesto Juan Fonfrias, “Guatemala: un pueblo triste,” Diario de Centro América , Sept. 1, 1950.) Fonfrias’ assessment of Guatemala in 1950 contains important clues to understanding the “revolution” from 1944 to 1954 and its overthrow. The…
Roots of Revolution
"Roots of Revolution: Radical Thought in Cuba by Sheldon B. Liss." Canadian Journal of History, 23(2), pp. 299–300
Close Neighbors, Distant Friends
"Close Neighbors, Distant Friends: United States-Central American Relations, by John E. Findling." Canadian Journal of History, 23(1), pp. 138–139
The Prairies and the Pampas
"The Prairies and the Pampas: Agrarian Policy in Canada and Argentina, 1880-1930, by Carl E. Solberg." Canadian Journal of History, 23(2), pp. 282–283
National Policy, Agrarian Reform, and the Corporate Community during the Guatemalan Revolution, 1944–1954
The ‘revolution’ from 1944 to 1954 prompted important changes in rural communities in Guatemala. The extension of many government services to rural areas for the first time, the involvement of political parties in village politics, and the growth of a rural labour federation all altered the political, economic, and social organization of rural Guatemala irrevocably. Changes became even more dramatic and more significant after 1950 with the growth…
Black Labor on a White Canal
The Most Precious Fruit of the Revolution
IN his 1953 address to the Guatemalan congress, President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman declared, The Agrarian Reform Law begins the economic transformation of Guatemala; it is the most precious fruit of the revolution and the fundamental base of the destiny of the nation as new He went on to affirm that the law formed a part of the heavy debt the ruling class and governors have contracted with the humble people, with people of the field with cheap cotton…
Resurgent Democracy and the Guatemalan Military
During 1984 and 1985 there was much discussion of an apparent 'resurgence' of democracy in many countries in Latin America. As the military handed over the reins of government to elected civilian rulers in Honduras, El Salvador and Argentina, and steps toward the same end were taken in Uruguay and Brazil, the American media and the Reagan administration - conveniently forgetting its earlier support for military dictatorship - began to speak glowi…
Gift of the Devil
The Guatemalan Revolution and Civil Rights
Les élections libres et le respect des droits civiques et judiciaires occupent une place importante dans la rhétorique des gouvernements «révolutionnaires» au Guatémala entre 1945 et 1954. Pourtant les forces d'opposition accusèrent le gouvernement d'abus. Les héritiers de la «Libération» de 1954 ont depuis justifié le renversement du gouvernement Arbenz en invoquant qu 'il avait pris le pouvoir au moyen de la fraude électorale et qu'il s'y était…
Chicken Thieves, Witches, and Judges
This article explores the reasons for the spread of vigilante justice (linchamientos) in contemporary Guatemala. It investigates three specific linchamientos and suggests that the roots of such vigilante justice lie in a collapsing peasant economy, insecurity of all sorts, and an unravelling of the social fabric in rural communities through the militarisation of rural Guatemala.The article also argues that linchamientos are caused partly by a con…
Almost idiotic wretchedness
From the late eighteenth century in Britain to the late twentieth century in predominantly rural societies in the global south, most descriptions of peasants provided by government planners or economists have been remarkably similar. These descriptions focus on five alleged elements of peasant life: (1) peasants are backward and uncivilised - one aspect of that backwardness is their inability to control their sexual urges and thus their tendency …
Democratizing What? Some Reflections on Nation, State, Ethnicity, Modernity, Community and Democracy in Guatemala
This article explores the roots of the difficulties encountered in constructing an effective democracy in Guatemala that meets the needs of Mayan people and Mayan communities. It explores the successes apparent in fostering the acceptance of the idea of Guatemala as a multilingual and pluriethnic entity. Nonetheless, it suggests that there has been tremendous difficulty and significant opposition to effective incorporation of those ideas. It expl…
A Sea of Indians”
The Indian is an inexhaustable layer of exploitation and his best song is his taciturnity.... Guatemala is sad; a desperate, horrid, fearful sadness ... a sad people living with a totally alien world within us. (Ernesto Juan Fonfrias, “Guatemala: un pueblo triste,” Diario de Centro América , Sept. 1, 1950.) Fonfrias’ assessment of Guatemala in 1950 contains important clues to understanding the “revolution” from 1944 to 1954 and its overthrow. The…
National Policy, Agrarian Reform, and the Corporate Community during the Guatemalan Revolution, 1944–1954
The ‘revolution’ from 1944 to 1954 prompted important changes in rural communities in Guatemala. The extension of many government services to rural areas for the first time, the involvement of political parties in village politics, and the growth of a rural labour federation all altered the political, economic, and social organization of rural Guatemala irrevocably. Changes became even more dramatic and more significant after 1950 with the growth…
Resurgent Democracy and the Guatemalan Military
During 1984 and 1985 there was much discussion of an apparent 'resurgence' of democracy in many countries in Latin America. As the military handed over the reins of government to elected civilian rulers in Honduras, El Salvador and Argentina, and steps toward the same end were taken in Uruguay and Brazil, the American media and the Reagan administration - conveniently forgetting its earlier support for military dictatorship - began to speak glowi…
The Most Precious Fruit of the Revolution
IN his 1953 address to the Guatemalan congress, President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman declared, The Agrarian Reform Law begins the economic transformation of Guatemala; it is the most precious fruit of the revolution and the fundamental base of the destiny of the nation as new He went on to affirm that the law formed a part of the heavy debt the ruling class and governors have contracted with the humble people, with people of the field with cheap cotton…
The enchantment of property
English agricultural practice changed dramatically in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as enclosure, the dominance of commercial short-term leases for tenant farmers, and the proletarianization of the agricultural labour force completed what has been called an agricultural revolution. A less often noted aspect of this change was what was called "a war on cottages" and cottage gardens. The Board of Agriculture and Arthur Young were important…
A Terrible Necessity
This article analyzes the writings on India of The Economist newspaper from 1843 to the 1860s. It argues that despite the adherence of the paper to the ideas of laissez-faire nineteenth-century liberal ideas of political economy, its writing on India - and the political career of its founder and editor, James Wilson - demonstrate a ready embrace of empire, government intervention in the economy, and increased taxation. The article suggests this d…
The Free Exercise of Self-Love”
This article uses the writings of The Economist on Ireland during the potato famine as a means to explore ideas about liberal political economy in nineteenth-century Britain. The article argues that Ireland presented such an extreme case that contemporary writing about it allows readers to see the assumptions that lay behind ideas of liberal political economy in relation to land, government involvement in the economy, and peasant proprietorship
Demilitarizing Community in Guatemala
One of the most important struggles which has occurred in Guatemala during the last few years is the attempt by residents in highland villages to demilitarize their communities. Community members have bravely protested the presence of the military in their towns, demanding the end of the civil patrols and forced recruitment. This struggle is linked to other movements headed by Guatemalan Maya which seek to reshape Guatemalan society and politics …
Anxiety and Dread
The Guatemalan Revolution and Civil Rights
Les élections libres et le respect des droits civiques et judiciaires occupent une place importante dans la rhétorique des gouvernements «révolutionnaires» au Guatémala entre 1945 et 1954. Pourtant les forces d'opposition accusèrent le gouvernement d'abus. Les héritiers de la «Libération» de 1954 ont depuis justifié le renversement du gouvernement Arbenz en invoquant qu 'il avait pris le pouvoir au moyen de la fraude électorale et qu'il s'y était…
Resurgent Democracy and the Guatemalan Military
During 1984 and 1985 there was much discussion of an apparent 'resurgence' of democracy in many countries in Latin America. As the military handed over the reins of government to elected civilian rulers in Honduras, El Salvador and Argentina, and steps toward the same end were taken in Uruguay and Brazil, the American media and the Reagan administration - conveniently forgetting its earlier support for military dictatorship - began to speak glowi…
Gift of the Devil
Roots of Revolution
"Roots of Revolution: Radical Thought in Cuba by Sheldon B. Liss." Canadian Journal of History, 23(2), pp. 299–300
Close Neighbors, Distant Friends
"Close Neighbors, Distant Friends: United States-Central American Relations, by John E. Findling." Canadian Journal of History, 23(1), pp. 138–139
The Prairies and the Pampas
"The Prairies and the Pampas: Agrarian Policy in Canada and Argentina, 1880-1930, by Carl E. Solberg." Canadian Journal of History, 23(2), pp. 282–283
National Policy, Agrarian Reform, and the Corporate Community during the Guatemalan Revolution, 1944–1954
The ‘revolution’ from 1944 to 1954 prompted important changes in rural communities in Guatemala. The extension of many government services to rural areas for the first time, the involvement of political parties in village politics, and the growth of a rural labour federation all altered the political, economic, and social organization of rural Guatemala irrevocably. Changes became even more dramatic and more significant after 1950 with the growth…
Black Labor on a White Canal
The Most Precious Fruit of the Revolution
IN his 1953 address to the Guatemalan congress, President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman declared, The Agrarian Reform Law begins the economic transformation of Guatemala; it is the most precious fruit of the revolution and the fundamental base of the destiny of the nation as new He went on to affirm that the law formed a part of the heavy debt the ruling class and governors have contracted with the humble people, with people of the field with cheap cotton…
A Sea of Indians”
The Indian is an inexhaustable layer of exploitation and his best song is his taciturnity.... Guatemala is sad; a desperate, horrid, fearful sadness ... a sad people living with a totally alien world within us. (Ernesto Juan Fonfrias, “Guatemala: un pueblo triste,” Diario de Centro América , Sept. 1, 1950.) Fonfrias’ assessment of Guatemala in 1950 contains important clues to understanding the “revolution” from 1944 to 1954 and its overthrow. The…
Anxiety and Dread
The United States in Central America, 1860-1911
Demilitarizing Community in Guatemala
One of the most important struggles which has occurred in Guatemala during the last few years is the attempt by residents in highland villages to demilitarize their communities. Community members have bravely protested the presence of the military in their towns, demanding the end of the civil patrols and forced recruitment. This struggle is linked to other movements headed by Guatemalan Maya which seek to reshape Guatemalan society and politics …
Revolution in the Countryside
Democratizing What? Some Reflections on Nation, State, Ethnicity, Modernity, Community and Democracy in Guatemala
This article explores the roots of the difficulties encountered in constructing an effective democracy in Guatemala that meets the needs of Mayan people and Mayan communities. It explores the successes apparent in fostering the acceptance of the idea of Guatemala as a multilingual and pluriethnic entity. Nonetheless, it suggests that there has been tremendous difficulty and significant opposition to effective incorporation of those ideas. It expl…
Chicken Thieves, Witches, and Judges
This article explores the reasons for the spread of vigilante justice (linchamientos) in contemporary Guatemala. It investigates three specific linchamientos and suggests that the roots of such vigilante justice lie in a collapsing peasant economy, insecurity of all sorts, and an unravelling of the social fabric in rural communities through the militarisation of rural Guatemala.The article also argues that linchamientos are caused partly by a con…
The Last Colonial Massacre
This ambitious book explores the ways U.S. cold-war policies helped frustrate the spread of democratic politics in Latin America, using Guatemala (especially the events leading to the 1978 Panzos massacre in northeastern Guatemala) as an example. It also concerns local politics and how peasants in the Polochic Valley embraced a form of democracy and resistance. The book succeeds in all aspects, but it is much more effective in the last discussion…
Courage Tastes of Blood
Almost idiotic wretchedness
From the late eighteenth century in Britain to the late twentieth century in predominantly rural societies in the global south, most descriptions of peasants provided by government planners or economists have been remarkably similar. These descriptions focus on five alleged elements of peasant life: (1) peasants are backward and uncivilised - one aspect of that backwardness is their inability to control their sexual urges and thus their tendency …
Reckoning
Diane Nelson’s previous book, Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Gua-temala, was a masterpiece: an evocative and frighteningly insightful discussion of the multiplicity and fluidity of identity in Guatemala. In that book, her propensity to explore the difficulty of fixing a meaning to words was an essential aspect of her exploration of the slipperiness of identity in Guatemala as the country struggled away from war.Given the bri…
The Free Exercise of Self-Love”
This article uses the writings of The Economist on Ireland during the potato famine as a means to explore ideas about liberal political economy in nineteenth-century Britain. The article argues that Ireland presented such an extreme case that contemporary writing about it allows readers to see the assumptions that lay behind ideas of liberal political economy in relation to land, government involvement in the economy, and peasant proprietorship
A Terrible Necessity
This article analyzes the writings on India of The Economist newspaper from 1843 to the 1860s. It argues that despite the adherence of the paper to the ideas of laissez-faire nineteenth-century liberal ideas of political economy, its writing on India - and the political career of its founder and editor, James Wilson - demonstrate a ready embrace of empire, government intervention in the economy, and increased taxation. The article suggests this d…
The enchantment of property
English agricultural practice changed dramatically in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as enclosure, the dominance of commercial short-term leases for tenant farmers, and the proletarianization of the agricultural labour force completed what has been called an agricultural revolution. A less often noted aspect of this change was what was called "a war on cottages" and cottage gardens. The Board of Agriculture and Arthur Young were important…
The Enclosure of Knowledge
In the second edition of the Economist newspaper in September 1843, the paper celebrated the fact that “active and intelligent landlords . . . [were] breaking up the hard clods of ignorance . . . [and] the art of husbandry, is rapidly changing into the science of agriculture.” Whether one accepts the Economist's assessment of the changing nature of agriculture in England in 1843 or not, James Fisher's fascinating book demonstrates clearly how lon…
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