Ranquil

“A deeply researched work. . . . Ránquil deserves a long historiographical life. It is a superb work of labor, agrarian, and political history.”—Raymond Craib, Hispanic American Historical Review

“An engaging, well-researched historical account of the country’s 1934 Ránquil rebellion. . . . A model for studying rural rebellions, violence, and memory.”—A. Vergara, Choice

Winner of the Whitaker Book Prize from the Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS)

“This deeply researched narrative unfolds like a historical novel, capturing the protagonists in the long history of conflict over land, labor conditions, and national government policies that provoked the Ranquil rebellion and massacre, as well as its ‘place’ in present-day Chilean politics and historical memory.”—Brian Loveman, author of No Higher Law: American Foreign Policy and the Western Hemisphere since 1776

“In this meticulously researched, finely crafted, and cogently argued work, Klubock challenges Chile’s long-standing image as a paradigm of social peace and political concord in Latin America. This is a mandatory read for anyone interested in contemporary Chilean history.”—Julio Pinto, Universidad de Santiago de Chile