Coffee And The Growth Of Agrarian Capitalism In Nineteenth Century Puerto Rico

Author : Laird W. Bergad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691076461
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coffee and the Growth of Agrarian Capitalism in Nineteenth-century Puerto Rico written by Laird W. Bergad and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, Coffee And The Growth of Agrarian Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico, will be forthcoming.

Author : James L. Dietz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691022482
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic History of Puerto Rico written by James L. Dietz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive and detailed account of the economichistory of Puerto Rico from the period of Spanish colonial dominationto the present. Interweaving findings of the "new" Puerto Ricanhistoriography with those of earlier historical studies, and usingthe most recent theoretical concepts to interpret them, James Dietzexamines the complex manner in which productive and class relationswithin Puerto Rico have interacted with changes in its placein the world economy.Besides including aggregate data on Puerto Rico's economy, theauthor offers valuable information on workers' living conditionsand women workers, plus new interpretations of development sinceOperation Bootstrap. His evaluation of the island's export-orientedeconomy has implications for many other developing countries.

Author : Lowell Gudmundson
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807125724
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Costa Rica Before Coffee written by Lowell Gudmundson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Costa Rica Before Coffee centers on the decade of the 1840s, when the impact of coffee and export agriculture began to revolutionize Costa Rican society. Lowell Gudmundson focuses on the nature of the society prior to the coffee boom, but he also makes observations on the entire sweep of Costa Rican history, from earliest colonial times to the present, and in his final chapter compares the country's development and agrarian structures with those of other Latin American nations. These wide-ranging applications follow inevitably, since the author convincingly portrays the 1840s as they key decade in any interpretation of Costa Rican history.Gudmundson synthesizes and questions the existing historical literature on Costa Rica, relegating much of it to the realm of myth. He attacks what he calls the rural democratic myth (or rural egalitarian model) of Costa Rica's past, a myth that he argues has pervaded the country's historiography and politics and has had a huge impact on its image abroad and on its citizens' self-image. The rural democratic myth paints a rather idyllic picture of the country's past. It holds that prior to the coffee boom, the vast majority of Costa Rica's population was made up of peasants who owned small farms and were largely self-sufficient. These peasants enjoyed a high degree of social and economic quality; there were no important social distinctions and little division of labor. According to the myth, the primary source of this relatively egalitarian social order was the period of colonial rule, which ended in 1821. The new developments wrought by coffee and agrarian capitalism are seen as destructive of this rural democracy and as leading directly to unprecedented social problems that arose as a result of division of labor, rapid population growth, and widespread class antagonism.Gudmundson rejects virtually all of the components of this rural egalitarian model for pre-coffee society and reinterprets the early impact of coffee. He uses an array of sources, including census records, notary archives, and probate inventories, many of them previously unknown or unused, to analyze the country's social hierarchy, the division of labor, the distribution of wealth, various forms of private and communal land tenure, differentiation between cities and villages, household and family structure, and the elite before and after the rise of coffee. His powerful conclusion is that rather than reflecting the complexities of Costa Rican history, the rural egalitarian model is largely a construct of coffee culture itself, used to support the order that supplanted the colonial regime. Gudmundson ultimately reveals that the conceptual framework of the rural democratic myth has been limiting both to is supporters and to its opponents. Costa Rica Before Coffee proposes an alternative to the myth, on that emphasizes the complexity of agrarian history and breaks important new ground.

Author : Carlos Buitrago Ortiz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development of Agrarian-commercial Capitalism in Puerto Rico written by Carlos Buitrago Ortiz and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : César J. Ayala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108488463
Total Pages : 327 pages
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Download or read book Agrarian Puerto Rico written by César J. Ayala and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges dominant interpretations of colonialism's impact on the economy and social structuring of a US-owned Caribbean colony.

Author : A. G. Hopkins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691196877
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Empire written by A. G. Hopkins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compelling, provocative, and learned. This book is a stunning and sophisticated reevaluation of the American empire. Hopkins tells an old story in a truly new way--American history will never be the same again."--Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office.Office.

Author : Luis A. Figueroa
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807876836
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico written by Luis A. Figueroa and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions of the black population to the history and economic development of Puerto Rico have long been distorted and underplayed, Luis A. Figueroa contends. Focusing on the southeastern coastal region of Guayama, one of Puerto Rico's three leading centers of sugarcane agriculture, Figueroa examines the transition from slavery and slave labor to freedom and free labor after the 1873 abolition of slavery in colonial Puerto Rico. He corrects misconceptions about how ex-slaves went about building their lives and livelihoods after emancipation and debunks standing myths about race relations in Puerto Rico. Historians have assumed that after emancipation in Puerto Rico, as in other parts of the Caribbean and the U.S. South, former slaves acquired some land of their own and became subsistence farmers. Figueroa finds that in Puerto Rico, however, this was not an option because both capital and land available for sale to the Afro-Puerto Rican population were scarce. Paying particular attention to class, gender, and race, his account of how these libertos joined the labor market profoundly revises our understanding of the emancipation process and the evolution of the working class in Puerto Rico.

Author : Leslie Bethell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521245173
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Latin America written by Leslie Bethell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines Latin American history from c. 1870 to 1930.

Author : Ibarra Cuesta, Jorge
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231033581
Total Pages : 721 pages
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Download or read book General History of the Caribbean written by Ibarra Cuesta, Jorge and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of Volume IV of the General History of the Caribbean, the Long Nineteenth Century, indicates its range, from the last years of the eighteenth to the first two decades of the twentieth. The volume begins during the hegemony of the European nations and the social and economic dominance of the slave masters. It ends with the hegemony of the United States of America and the economic dominance of American and European agricultural and mercantile corporations. The chapters provide thematic accounts of societies emerging from slavery at different times during the century and also of the circumstances that affected the extent to which these societies were autochthonous within their various territories. The book's survey of this span of 150 years begins with the Haitian Revolution and its repercussions both within the region and outside. It then examines in turn the variety of ways in which the emancipated, their ex-masters and the colonial powers related to each other in the economy, polity and society of various territories; the economy of sugar in decline; the hostility of local landed elites to the welfare of the emancipated, to the ways landless labourers adapted to survive, and to interregional migrations; the social and cultural transformations of new populations from Africa, India and China; the technical innovations in the sugar industry towards the end of the century that differentiate the interests of field owner from factory owner; the decline of white pre-eminence, yet their resistance to claims for autonomy and an end to colonial tutelage

Author : Eileen J. Suárez Findlay
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822376113
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Are Left without a Father Here written by Eileen J. Suárez Findlay and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Are Left without a Father Here is a transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. At its core are the thousands of agricultural workers who, at the behest of the Puerto Rican government, migrated to Michigan in 1950 to work in the state's sugar beet fields. The men expected to earn enough income to finally become successful breadwinners and fathers. To their dismay, the men encountered abysmal working conditions and pay. The migrant workers in Michigan and their wives in Puerto Rico soon exploded in protest. Chronicling the protests, the surprising alliances that they created, and the Puerto Rican government's response, Eileen J. Suárez Findlay explains that notions of fatherhood and domesticity were central to Puerto Rican populist politics. Patriarchal ideals shaped citizens' understandings of themselves, their relationship to Puerto Rican leaders and the state, as well as the meanings they ascribed to U.S. colonialism. Findlay argues that the motivations and strategies for transnational labor migrations, colonial policies, and worker solidarities are all deeply gendered.