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Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua

Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua Paperback / softback - 2006

by Elizabeth W. Dore

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Paperback / softback. New. Provides a history of daily life on coffee plantations in central Nicaragua between 1870 and 1950 and uses that history to argue that the coffee boom impeded rather than expedited the country's transition to capitalism
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  • Title Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua
  • Author Elizabeth W. Dore
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Raleigh
  • Date 2006-01-25
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780822336747
  • ISBN 9780822336747 / 082233674X
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.32 x 0.69 in (22.96 x 16.05 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
  • Library of Congress subjects Social stratification - Nicaragua - Diriomo, Peonage - Nicaragua - Diriomo (Municipio)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005015955
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.512

From the publisher

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.

From the rear cover

""Myths of Modernity" demonstrates why an understanding of history is important to current policy debates and why a misguided analysis of rural class relations contributed to the eventual electoral defeat of the Sandinistas."--Carmen Diana Deere, coauthor of "Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America"

About the author

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.

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