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.