Elizabeth Dore

Myths of Modernity

Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""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"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 397g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336747
• ISBN-10: 082233674X
• Artikelnr.: 22071462

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Dore

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