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Central American Historiography After the Violence

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WEST INDIAN WORKERS AND THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY IN COSTA RICA, 1870–1940. By ChomskyAviva. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996, Pp. 286. $35.00 cloth.)
THE LOGIC OF THE LATIFUNDIO: THE LARGE ESTATES OF NORTHWESTERN COSTA RICA SINCE THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By EdelmanMarc. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992. Pp. 478. $55.00 cloth.)
REVOLUTION IN THE COUNTRYSIDE: RURAL CONFLICT AND AGRARIAN REFORM IN GUATEMALA, 1944–1954. By HandyJim. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. 272. $45.00 cloth, $15.95 paper.)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Jeffrey L. Gould  and
Lowell Gudmundson
Jeffrey L. Gould
Affiliation:
Indiana University
Lowell Gudmundson
Affiliation:
Mount Holyoke College
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , 1997 , pp. 244 - 256
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Copyright © 1997 by the University of Texas Press

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Notes

1. See Philippe Bourgois, Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989); Charles R. Hale, Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitú Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894–1987 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994); Darío Euraque, Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870–1972 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).

2. Ronald Harpelle's recent work is particularly strong on these two issues. See Harpelle, “West Indians in Costa Rica: Racism, Class, and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Community,” Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto, 1992. For the earliest history of West Indians in Limón using photographic records, see Carmen Murillo Chaverri, Identidades de hierro y humo: La construcción del ferrocarril al Atlántico, 1870–1890 (San José: Porvenir, 1995).