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Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua

Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua

Dore, Elizabeth

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AnthropologyCentral American History

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ISBN10: 0822336863
ISBN13: 9780822336860
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 25 2006
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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.

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