Generations of settlers : rural households and markets on the Costa Rican frontier, 1850-1935

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    • Samper K., Mario

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Generations of settlers : rural households and markets on the Costa Rican frontier, 1850-1935

Mario Samper

(Dellplain Latin American studies, no. 26)

Westview Press, 1990

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • Domestic units and social environment
  • the first migrants
  • a society of settlers
  • sons and daughters of settlers
  • a new generation of migrants
  • uniqueness and convergent paths.

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