Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State
Subtitle: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean (Comparative and International Working-Class History)
Contributors: Barry  Carr (Contributor); Cindy Forster (Contributor); Dario Euraque (Contributor); Francisco A. Scarano (Contributor); Julie A. Charlip (Contributor); Patricia Alvarenga (Contributor); Richard Turtis (Contributor); Aviva Chomsky (Editor); Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago (Editor); Aviva Chomsky (Editor)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780822322023
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Cultural studies; Rural communities; Social classes; Social history; Social Science; Labor Market; Social Stratification; Sociology - General; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Caribbean islands; Central America; Latin America - Central America; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; History, Latin American; Latin American Studies; Caribbean Area; Working class; History; Peasantry
First sentence: This volume brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean in the crucial period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-a period that saw the consolidation of export economies and national states, both of which, in most cases, have left enduring legacies for our times.