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 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