The department of Carazo, says Charlip (history, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington) was transformed by the coffee boom of that half century. She shows that though small and medium-sized growers
Martinez-Torres (environment and society, Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, Chiapas, Mexico) describes how mostly Mayan indigenous peasants in the mountains of southern
Agos8n (Spanish, Wellesley College) introduces 22 essays ten translated from Spanish by women intellectuals on growing up as first- or second-generation Jewish immigrants in Latin countries. Hybrid i
Sandoval-Garcia (communication studies, U. of Costa Rica) explores the way that Costa Rican national identity has often been represented through the assignation of differences to external and internal
Shows how the perpetrators of the infamous "dirty war" in Argentina transferred their program of state terror to Central America and how the US endorsed this effort. Reveals that agents of the Argenti
In many Latin American countries, guerrilla struggle and feminism have been linked in surprising ways. Women were mobilized by the thousands to promote revolutionary agendas that had little to do with
What is the relationship between history and fiction in a place with a contentious past? And of what concern is gender in the telling of stories about that past?Writing Women in Central America explor
Portuguese and Brazilian slave-traders shipped at least four million slaves to Brazil—in contrast to the five hundred thousand slaves that English vessels brought to the Americas. Controlling the vast
Taking power in Nicaragua in 1979 as a revolutionary party, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) was willing to put its fate in the hands of the Nicaraguan people twice, in 1984 and 1990. T
Drawing on testimonies from contra collaborators and ex-combatants, as well as pro-Sandinista peasants, this book presents a dynamic account of the growing divisions between peasants from the area of
