The Logic of the Latifundio

by Edelman, Marc

• ISBN13: 9780804720441
• ISBN10: 0804720444
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-01-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

This book studies the changing social relations in a region of Costa Rica that does not conform to the country's image as an "agrarian democracy" and investigates why latifundios (large unproductive or under-utilized estates) still dominate much of Latin America.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction The Latin American Hacienda Agrarian Capitalismand Political Process	p. 1
The Period Before 1950	p. 31
Formation and Consolidation Of the Haciendas	p. 33
Technology, Transport, And Markets	p. 67
Relations of Production And Domination	p. 93
Agrarian Conflict And The External Peasantry	p. 119
The Transition to the Beef Export Economy	p. 154
The Period After 1950	p. 185
The Beef Export Economy	p. 187
Changes on the Ground: The Large Properties	p. 220
The Rural Poor: Resistance, Resignation, And Retreat	p. 253
Limits of the Transformation From Hacienda to Plantation	p. 283
The Politics of Water And Landlord Resistance	p. 324
Conclusion Economic Crisisand the Persistenceof Latifundismo	p. 353
Appendixes	p. 361
Reference Matter	p. 373
Notes	p. 375
References Cited	p. 428
Index	p. 459
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