An agrarian republic : commercial agriculture and the politics of peasant communities in El Salvador 1823 1914 Acknowledgments Introduction: peasants in the agrarian history of El Salvador Peasants indigo and land in the late Colonial Period The formation of peasant landholding communities 1820s 1870s The peasantry and commercial agriculture 1830s 1880s Peasant politics revolt and the formation of the state Coffee and its impact on labor land and class formation 1850 1910 The privatization of land and the transition to a freeholding peasantry 1881 1912 The abolition of ethnic communities and lands 1881 1912 Conclusion: land class formation and the state in Salvadoran history Appendix tables Abbreviations used in notes Note sources Notes Glossary Bibliography Index