The Logic of the Latifundio: The Large Estates of Northwestern Costa Rica since the Late Nineteenth Century.

Introduction: the Latin American hacienda, Agrarian capitalism, and political process Part I. The Period Before 1950: 1. Formation and consolidation of the haciendas 2. technology, transport, and markets 3. Relations of production and domination 4. Agrarian conflict and the external peasantry 5. The transition to the beef export economy Part II. The Period After 1950: 6. The beef export economy 7. Changes on the ground: the large properties 8. The rural poor: resistance, resignation, and retreat 9. Limits of the transformation from hacienda to plantation 10. The politics of water and landlord resistance Conclusion: economic crisis and the persistence of latifundismo Appendixes Notes Index.