Author: Edelman, Marc
Title: The Logic of the Latifundio: The Large Estates of Northwestern Costa Rica Since the Late Nineteenth Century
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1992. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xv, 478 pp. Textual maps,graphs & tables. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Latin American Hacienda, Agrarian Capitalism, &Political Process; The Period Before 1950: Formation & Consolidation of the Haciendas; Technology, Transport, & Markets; Relations of Production & Domination; Agrarian Conflict & the External Peasantry; The Transition to the Beef Export Economy; The Period After 1950: The Beef Export Economy; Changes on the Ground: The Large Properties; The Rural Poor: Resistance, Resignation, & Retreat; Limits of the Transformation from Hacienda to Plantation; The Politics of Water & Landlord Resistance; Conclusion: Economic Crisis & the Persistence of Latifundismo.

Keywords: Costa Rica Economic History, Central America, Agricultural Rural, Agriculture Economy, Agrarian Economics, Sociology Cattle, Hacienda Haciendas, Latifundio Beef, Export Guanacaste