Dore Elizabeth Dore

Myths of Modernity (eBook, PDF)

Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua

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Produktbeschreibung

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 community from its inception in the colonial era to its demise in the early twentieth century.Dore seamlessly combines archival research, oral history, and an innovative theoretical approach that unites political economy with social history. She recovers the bygone voices of peons, planters, and local officials within documents such as labor contracts, court records, and official correspondence. She juxtaposes these historical perspectives with those of contemporary peasants, landowners, activists, and politicians who share memories passed down to the present. The reconceptualization of the coffee economy that Dore elaborates has far-reaching implications. The Sandinistas mistakenly believed, she contends, that Nicaraguan capitalism was mature and ripe for socialist revolution, and after their victory in 1979 that belief led them to alienate many peasants by ignoring their demands for land. Thus, the Sandinistas' myths of modernity contributed to their downfall.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822387626
• Artikelnr.: 54815869

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Dore is Reader in Latin American History at the University of Southampton. She is the author of The Peruvian Mining Industry: Growth, Stagnation, and Crisis; the editor of Gender Politics in Latin America: Debates in Theory and Practice; and a coeditor of Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

2. Indians under Colonialism and Postcolonialism 33
3. Patriarchal Power in the Pueblos 53
4. The Private Property Revolution 69
5. Gendered Contradictions of Liberalism: Ethnicity, Property, and
Households 97
6. Debt Peonage in Diriomo: Forced Labor Revisited 110
7. Patriarchy and Peonage 149
Conclusion 164
Epilogue: History Matters—The Sandinistas’ Myth of Modernity 172
Notes 181
Glossary 213
Bibliography 217
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Who Controls the Past Controls the Future 1
1. Theories of Capitalism, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity 17
Index 239