An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914 (Pitt Latin American Series)
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Overview
Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago is an associate professor of history at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He edited (with Avi Chomsky) Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean (Duke University Press). His articles have appeared in the Hispanic American Historical Review and the Latin American Research Review.Synopsis
With unprecedented use of local and national sources, Lauria-Santiago presents a more complex portrait of El Salvador than has ever been ventured before. Using thoroughly researched regional case studies, Lauria-Santiago challenges the accepted vision of Central America in the nineteenth century and critiques the "liberal oligarchic hegemony" model of El Salvador. He reveals the existence of a diverse, commercially active peasantry that was deeply involved with local and national networks of power.
Booknews
Traces the history of causal factors in the development of El Salvador's highly stratified and politically conflicted society, focusing on land use, export production, and rural class and ethnic relations. Draws on the study of issues of post-colonial agrarian society, such as questions of land tenure, labor, and agriculture. Addresses peasant politics and state formation during the 19th century, and contributes to debates on the impact of coffee production on class structure and state power in Latin America. The author teaches history at College of the Holy Cross. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)