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Synopsis
With unprecedented use of local and national sources, Lauria-Santiago presents a more complex portrait of El Salvador than has ever been ventured before. Using thoroughly researched regional case studies, Lauria-Santiago challenges the accepted vision of Central America in the nineteenth century and critiques the "liberal oligarchic hegemony" model of El Salvador. He reveals the existence of a diverse, commercially active peasantry that was deeply involved with local and national networks of power.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-317) and index.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: peasants in the agrarian history of El Salvador -- Peasants, indigo, and land in the late Colonial Period -- The formation of peasant landholding communities, 1820s-1870s -- The peasantry and commercial agriculture, 1830s-1880s -- Peasant politics, revolt, and the formation of the state -- Coffee and its impact on labor, land, and class formation, 1850-1910 -- The privatization of land and the transition to a freeholding peasantry, 1881-1912 -- The abolition of ethnic communities and lands, 1881-1912 -- Conclusion: land, class formation and the state in Salvadoran history -- Appendix tables -- Abbreviations used in notes -- Note sources -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.