Novarese’s Stop makes for quite a quirky choice for the title of this history of peasant rebellion in the then guerilla occupied Chalatenango region of El Salvador. Additional text on the cover is either in Trade Gothic or News Gothic. Stop is also used for the chapter titles.
From the blurb:
Jenny Pearce crossed the front line in El Salvador to collect oral histories from the people living under bombardment in Chalatenango, an area controlled by the FMLN guerillas. Promised Land traces how, despite 50 years of systematic and brutal repression, the peasants began to organize themselves. In the face of growing landlessness and misery, they formed a union in the 1970s to fight for cheaper credit, lower rents, and better wages on the plantations. Together with other labor organizations, they created one of the best organized and most combative popular movements in Latin America.
Charming cover artwork too, featuring hand-drawn lettering for the “Clinica” and the “Tienda Popular”. The copyright page (for once) credits Valeria Varas for the illustration and Chris Hudson for the cover design.
The book was published by the Latin America Bureau in London, with distribution in the USA by the Monthly Review Foundation.
Detail from the opening page of Chapter 1, showing Stop used for the chapter titles. The text typeface is News Plantin.
