Generations Of Settlers: Rural Households And Markets On The Costa Rican Frontier, 1850-1935 (dellplain Latin American Studies)

This book presents conceptual issues regarding household commodity production and agrarian capitalism and refers to specific issues in Costa Rican historiography. It discusses the regional case-study, addressing issues such as the role of peasant farming in the development of agro-export production. A study of agrarian changes in Costa Rica's Central Valley. It examines the settlement of land by peasant farmers, their production and marketing of commodities locally and internationally, land use and tenure, the organization of rural labour, social relations and inheritance systems.