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. Dore seamlessly combines archival research, oral history, and an innovative theoretical approach that unites political economy with social history. She recovers the bygone voices of peons, planters, and local officials within documents such as labor contracts, court records, and official correspondence. She juxtaposes these historical perspectives with those of contemporary peasants, landowners, activists, and politicians who share memories passed down to the present. The reconceptualization of the coffee economy that Dore elaborates has far-reaching implications. The Sandinistas mistakenly believed, she contends, that Nicaraguan capitalism was mature and ripe for socialist revolution, and after their victory in 1979 that belief led them to alienate many peasants by ignoring their demands for land. Thus, the Sandinistas’ myths of modernity contributed to their downfall.
This book examines patterns of growth, stagnation, and crisis in the Peruvian mining industry in twentieth century, presenting an assessment of the nature of some internal constraints which prevents mining companies in Peru from responding to price incentives and increased demand for their products.
A Robin's Pageant is the story of three generations of women: Louella, her daughter, Margaret, and her granddaughter, Sarah. A story of love and loss, it lays bare the intricate joys and heartaches of motherhood, and explores the extraordinary undercurrents of ordinary, everyday life. In 1922, widowed and pregnant at nineteen after only two months of marriage, Louella gives up her baby to her sister and then never sees her son again. The repercussions of this decision define who she is when she becomes a wife and mother again twenty years later. Louella never reveals her first experience of motherhood to her daughter, and she later deeply regrets this secret.Inevitably shaped by Louella's early loss, Margaret and Sarah connect to the world in very different ways, with unique views on the meanings of their own childhood experiences. Both women explore the challenges and mysteries of motherhood, Margaret looking back, and Sarah, pregnant for the first time, anticipating.Just before her baby is born, Sarah discovers a long-hidden letter from her grandmother, explaining Louella's early experiences. The revelation of Louella's loss clarifies and heals much of the tension between the three generations of women. When Sarah's baby is born, an unexpected twist brings the novel full circle. Through one family's story, A Robin's Pageant illuminates the inevitable combinations of love, joy, grief, and dramatic experience that define our humanity.
The Elizabeth Stories serves as a legacy of Alfred Baroodys wife, Elizabeththe authorwho previously published several articles, short stories, and books. This is a collection of ten short stories and two novelettes compiled into one book. These are stories about adventure, action, mystery, and so much more.
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