Identity and struggle at the margins of the nation-state : the laboring peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean / Aviva Chomsky & Aldo Lauria-Santiago, editors.
| Other author | Chomsky, Aviva, 1957- |
| Other author | Lauria-Santiago, Aldo. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1998. |
| Description | vi, 404 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : identity and struggle in the history of the Hispanic Caribbean and Central America, 1850-1950 / Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Aviva Chomsky -- "That a poor man be industrious" : coffee, community, and agrarian capitalism in the transformation of El Salvador's ladino peasantry, 1850-1900 / Aldo Lauria-Santiago -- "Vana ilusión!" : the highlands Indians and the myth of Nicaragua mestiza, 1880-1925 / Jeffrey L. Gould -- At their own risk : coffee farmers and debt in Nicaragua, 1870-1930 / Julie A. Charlip -- Auxiliary forces in the shaping of the repressive system : El Salvador, 1880-1930 / Patricia Alvarenga -- The banana enclave, nationalism, and mestizaje in Honduras, 1910s-1930s / Darío A. Euraque -- Laborers and smallholders in Costa Rica's mining communities, 1900-1940 / Aviva Chomsky -- Reforging national revolution : campesino labor struggles in Guatemala, 1944-1954 / Cindy Forster -- Free love and domesticity : sexuality and the shaping of working-class feminism in Puerto Rico, 1900-1917 / Eileen J. Findlay -- "Omnipotent and omnipresent"? : labor shortages, worker mobility, and employer control in the Cuban sugar industry, 1910-1934 / Barry Carr -- The foundations of despotism : agrarian reform, rural transformation, and peasant-state compromise in Trujillo's Dominican Republic, 1930-1944 / Richard L. Turits -- Conclusion : imagining the future of the subaltern past--fragments of race, class, and gender in Central America and Hispanic Caribbean, 1850-1950 / Lowell Gudmundson and Francisco A. Scarano. |
| Local note | Little-314213--305131029375$ |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-383) and index. |
| LCCN | 97044374 |
| ISBN | 0822322021 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822322188 (pbk. : alk. paper) |