Myths of Modernity Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua

Name: Myths of Modernity Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua
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ISBN: 9780822336747

ISBN-10: 082233674X

ISBN-13: 9780822336747

Edition: 2006

Authors: Elizabeth Dore, Octave Mannoni, Brook Thomas, Sylvia Yanagisako

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In "Myths of Modernity," Elizabeth Dore rethinks Nicaragua's transition to capitalism. Arguing against the idea that the country's capitalist transformation was ushered in by the coffee boom that extended from 1870 to 1930, she maintains that coffee growing gave rise to systems of landowning and labor exploitation that impeded rather than promoted capitalist development. Dore places gender at the forefront of her analysis, which demonstrates that patriarchy was the organizing principle of the coffee economy's debt-peonage system until the 1950s. She examines the gendered dynamics of daily life in Diriomo, a township in Nicaragua's Granada region, tracing the history of the town's Indian…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.14" wide x 8.98" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Tables and Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Who Controls the Past Controls the Future



Theories of Capitalism, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity



Indians under Colonialism and Postcolonialism



Patriarchal Power in the Pueblos



The Private Property Revolution



Gendered Contradictions of Liberalism: Ethnicity, Property, and Households



Debt Peonage in Diriomo: Forced Labor Revisited



Patriarchy and Peonage


Conclusion


Epilogue: History Matters-The Sandinistas' Myth of Modernity


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index