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With unprecedented use of local and national sources, Lauria-Santiago presents a more complex portrait of El Salvador than has ever been ventured before. Using thoroughly researched regional case studies, Lauria-Santiago challenges the accepted vision of Central America in the nineteenth century and critiques the ""liberal oligarchic hegemony"" model of El Salvador. He reveals the existence of a diverse, commercially active peasantry that was deeply involved with local and national networks of power

While the present state of Salvadoran historiography encourages research in previously unexplored areas, no easy transition can be made from research projects to source materials. Scholars desiring to work on El Salvador will find that access to Salvadoran archival holdings is currently hindered by skeletal staffing and problematic working conditions. Finding the desired documents consequently involves more than the usual amount of sifting through papers. This research note provides a guide to archival and other historical materials available in the United States and El Salvador and places these sources in the context of major questions left unanswered by the historiography covering 1700 to 1940. (Lat Am Res Rev/DÜI)

The recent return of peace to El Salvador is providing increasingly favorable conditions for scholarly research. This encouraging climate will help Salvadoran and guest researchers make up for years of difficult and repressive conditions. Some researchers may begin by examining contemporary questions related to the recent revolutionary process, but historical research should also be greatly facilitated. Entrepreneurial searches for archival materials on the period preceding the mid-twentieth century can be surprisingly successful when one combines a national outlook with careful regional probing. This research note will provide a guide to archival and other historical materials available in the United States and El Salvador and will place these sources in the context of major questions left unanswered by the historiography covering 1700 to 1940.

"Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights offers a reexamination of the history of Puerto Ricans' political and social activism in the United States in the twentieth century. Authors Lorrin Thomas and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago survey the ways in which Puerto Ricans worked within the United States to create communities for themselves and their compatriots in times and places where dark-skinned or 'foreign' Americans were often unwelcome. The authors argue that the energetic Puerto Rican rights movement which rose to prominence in the late 1960s was built on a foundation of civil rights activism beginning much earlier in the century. The text contextualizes Puerto Rican activism within the broader context of twentieth-century civil rights movements, while emphasizing the characteristics and goals unique to the Puerto Rican experience. Lucid and insightful, Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights provides a much-needed introduction to a lesser-known but critically important social and political movement"--

Introduction : identity and struggle in the history of the Hispanic Caribbean and Central America, 1850-1950 / Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Aviva Chomsky -- "That a poor man be industrious" : coffee, community, and agrarian capitalism in the transformation of El Salvador's ladino peasantry, 1850-1900 / Aldo Lauria-Santiago -- "Vana ilusión!" : the highlands Indians and the myth of Nicaragua mestiza, 1880-1925 / Jeffrey L. Gould -- At their own risk : coffee farmers and debt in Nicaragua, 1870-1930 / Julie A. Charlip -- Auxiliary forces in the shaping of the repressive system : El Salvador, 1880-1930 / Patricia Alvarenga -- The banana enclave, nationalism, and mestizaje in Honduras, 1910s-1930s / Darío A. Euraque -- Laborers and smallholders in Costa Rica's mining communities, 1900-1940 / Aviva Chomsky -- Reforging national revolution : campesino labor struggles in Guatemala, 1944-1954 / Cindy Forster -- Free love and domesticity : sexuality and the shaping of working-class feminism in Puerto Rico, 1900-1917 / Eileen J. Findlay -- "Omnipotent and omnipresent"? : labor shortages, worker mobility, and employer control in the Cuban sugar industry, 1910-1934 / Barry Carr -- The foundations of despotism : agrarian reform, rural transformation, and peasant-state compromise in Trujillo's Dominican Republic, 1930-1944 / Richard L. Turits -- Conclusion : imagining the future of the subaltern past--fragments of race, class, and gender in Central America and Hispanic Caribbean, 1850-1950 / Lowell Gudmundson and Francisco A. Scarano.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part one INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 State Terror in the U.S.–Latin American Interstate Regime -- Chapter 2 Operation Condor as a Hemispheric "Counterterror" Organization -- Part two CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO -- Chapter 3 "The Blood of the People" The Guardia Nacional's Fifty-year War against the People of Nicaragua, 1927–1979 -- Chapter 4 The Culture and Politics of State Terror and Repression in El Salvador -- Chapter 5 Caught in the Crossfire: Militarization, Paramilitarization, and State Violence in Oaxaca, Mexico -- Chapter 6 Bloody Deeds/Hechos Sangrientos: Reading Guatemala's Record of Political Violence in Cadaver Reports -- Chapter 7 U.S. Militarization of Honduras in the 1980s and the Creation of CIA-backed Death Squad -- chapter 8 "No Hay Rosas Sin Espinas" Statecraft in Costa Rica -- Part three SOUTH AMERICA -- Chapter 9 The Colombian Nightmare: Human Rights Abuses and the Contradictory Effects of U.S. Foreign Policy -- Chapter 10 The Path of State Terror in Peru -- Chapter 11 Turning on Their Masters: State Terrorism and Unlearning Democracy in Uruguay -- Chapter 12 Producing and Exporting State Terror The Case of Argentina -- Part four CONCLUSION -- chapter 13 New Responses to State Terror -- About the Contributors -- Index