Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State

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Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Identity and Struggle in the History of the Hispanic Caribbean and Central America / Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Aviva Chomsky 1 Central America 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 25 Vana Ilusion: The Highlands Indians and the Myth of Nicaragua Mestiza, 1880-1925 / Jeffrey L. Gould 52 At Their Own Risk / Coffee Farmers and Debt in Nicaragua, 1870-1930 / Julia A. Charlip 94 Auxiliary Forces in the Shaping of the Repressive System: El Salvador, 1880-1930 / Patricia Alvarenga 122 The Banana Enclave, Nationalism, and mestizaje in Honduras, 1910s-1930s / Dario A. Euraque 151 Laborers and Smallholders in Costa Rica's Mining Communities, 1900-1940 / Aviva Chomsky 169 Reforging National Revolution: Campesino Labor Struggles in Guatemala, 1944-1954 / Cindy Forster 196 The Hispanic Caribbean Free Love and Domesticity: Sexuality and the Shaping of Working-Class Feminism in Puerto Rico, 1900-1917 / Eileen J. Findlay 229 Omnipotent and Omnipresent? Labor Shortages, Worker Mobility, and Employer Control in the Cuban Sugar Industry, 1910-1934 / Barry Carr 260 The Foundations of Despotism: Agrarian Reform, Rural Transformation, and Peasant-State Compromise in Trujillo's Dominican Republic, 1930-1944 / Richard L. Turits 292 Conclusion: Imagining the Future of the Subaltern Past-Fragments of Race, Class, and Gender in Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, 1850-1950 / Lowell Gudmundson and Francisco A. Scarano 335 Selected Bibliography 365 Index 385 Contributors 403