jeffrey gould is the Rudy Professor of History and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Indiana University. His publications include To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880–1960 and To Lead As Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912–1979. He coproduced and codirected (with Carlos Henríquez Consalvi) the film Scars of Memory, El Salvador, 1932 (Icarus/First Run Films, 2003).lowell gudmundson is Professor of Latin American Studies at Mount Holyoke College. His books include (with Héctor Lindo-Fuentes) Central America, 1821–1871 (in both English and Spanish editions, 1995, 2001) and Costa Rica before Coffee (in both English and Spanish editions, 1986, 1990) and (as coeditor and contributor) Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America (1995). He is currently pursuing research in both Guatemala and Costa Rica.aldo lauria-santiago is Associate Professor at College of the Holy Cross. He has written An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1820–1918 (Pittsburgh Univ. Press, 1999) and coedited Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, 1850–1950 (Duke Univ. Press, 1998).james e. sanders is Assistant Professor of History at Utah State University. His first book, Contentious Republicans (Duke Univ. Press, 2004) explores how indigenous groups, ex-slaves, and small farmers created a democratic politics in nineteenth-century Colombia. His second work will examine how Latin Americans imagined and practiced a republican Atlantic World community in the nineteenth century.