Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua
by
Elizabeth Dore
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2006
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...