Lowell Gudmundson
Biographic Data
| ID | 83749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lowell Gudmundson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lowell |
| FAMILY NAME | Gudmundson |
| SIGNATURE | GUDMUNDSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2795-1247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Latin America’s Democratic Crusade: The Transnational Struggle against Dictatorship, 1920s–1960s, by Allen Wells
Down Panama Way: A Twenty-First-Century Renaissance
This essay reviews the following works:Modern Panama: From Occupation to Crossroads of the Americas. By Michael L. Conniff and Gene E. Bigler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. vii + 346. $32.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781108701198.The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panamá. By James P. Delgado, Tomás Mendizábal, Frederick H. Hanselmann, and Dominique Rissolo. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2016. Pp. viii + 283. $84.95 ha…
Costa Rica (1821-2021): De la independencia a su bicentenario
Commemorative historical works often disappoint readers with their celebration-rich and critically impoverished content. This multiauthor bicentennial reflection on Costa Rican independence offers detailed analyses of the broader independence era (the first half of the nineteenth century) as well as a take on the current moment that is more somber than celebratory. The collection highlights the research done by professional historians and their s…
Afro-Latin America in Flesh and Blood: Lives from the Battlefield, Cane Field, and Courtroom; Representations from Literature, Politics, and the Genomics Lab
This essay reviews the following works: Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600–2000. By George Reid Andrews. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. i + 123. $24.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780674737594. From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata. By Alex Borucki. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. Pp. vii + 306. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9780826351807. Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the…
De la historia agraria clásica a la nueva: Costa Rica y Estados Unidos
En las últimas tres décadas la historiografía costarricense y latinoamericanista estadounidense han presenciado la proliferación de nuevas temáticas y enfoques y una pérdida paralela de interés por los temas agrarios, anteriormente hasta dominantes en ciertos momentos y espacios. El presente ensayo ofrece un comentario autobiográfico sobre estos nuevos rumbos de la investigación en ambos países y sus lazos menos visibles con el agrarismo, así com…
Africans into Creoles: Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica, written by Russell Lohse
On Green Revolutions and Golden Beans: Memories and Metaphors of Costa Rican Coffee Co-op Founders
Debates históricos contemporáneos: Africanos y afrodescendientes en México y Centroamérica
En los últimos años, nuevos datos históricos sobre los africanos y afrodescendientes en México y países de América Central han aparecido en las investigaciones del periodo virreinal. Ello ha dado lugar a diversos debates y formas de interpretación sobre el papel que desempeñó la población de origen africano en la construcción de las sociedades americanas. Este libro, coordinado por María Elisa Velázquez, reúne artículos de investigadores de vario…
Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place
Many of the earliest Africans to arrive in the Americas came to Central America with Spanish colonists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and people of African descent constituted the majority of nonindigenous populations in the region long thereafter. Yet in the development of national identities and historical consciousness, Central American nations have often countenanced widespread practices of social, political, and regional exclusi…
Africanos y afrodescendientes en Centroamérica: Fuentes Y Estrategias Recientes Para Su Estudio
Un análisis de novedosas formas de investigar la historia afro-centroamericana durante los siglos 19 y 20. Comenta las fuentes, estrategias y resultados de recientes estudios que rescatan la historia de las poblaciones de ascendencia africana tradicionalmente identificadas con las mayorías mestizas o ladinas y no solamente aquellas del litoral atlántico que comúnmente se reconocen como afroamericanos
Ladinos with Ladinos, Indians with Indians: Land, Labor, and Regional Ethnic Conflict in the Making of Guatemala
Book Review| September 01 2007 Ladinos with Ladinos, Indians with Indians: Land, Labor, and Regional Ethnic Conflict in the Making of Guatemala Ladinos with Ladinos, Indians with Indians: Land, Labor, and Regional Ethnic Conflict in the Making of Guatemala René Reeves Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006 viii + 249 pp., $55.00 (cloth) Lowell Gudmundson Lowell Gudmundson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (20…
The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics
This is a welcome addition not only to the Duke series of national readers, where nations as tiny as Costa Rica would rarely be expected perhaps, but also to the small number of introductory or single-text options for those looking for classroom-friendly material. The vast expansion and increasing sophistication of Costa Rica’s tourist industry, as well as of U.S. study-abroad programs, will no doubt insure very robust sales of this volume. Those…
Nicaragua's Conservative Republic, 1858-93
This work will be welcomed by all those who lament both the scarcity of archival research on this period of Nicaraguan history and its frequent misrepresentation in synthetic or survey works. The author seeks not only to highlight Nicaragua’s now undeniable steady economic advance during this period but to offer even greater praise for the political and institutional achievements of the Granadan conservative administrations. He artfully combines …
Firewater, Desire, and the Militiamen's Christmas Eve in San Geroónimo, Baja Verapaz, 1892
San Gerónimo’s far-flung children—both those still living in the village or surrounding settlements and those who have migrated to the capital of Guatemala City—take great pride in the unrivaled reputation of their communal celebrations. Celebrations for San Gerónimo’s patron saint, for Christmas Eve, for New Year’s Eve, and for Easter Sunday are all marked by elaborate observances complete with costly fireworks. The village, renowned for its pro…
Negotiating Rights Under Slavery: The Slaves of San Geronimo (Baja Verapaz, Guatemala) Confront Their Dominican Masters In 1810
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Peasants against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica
Book Review| October 01 2001 Peasants against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica Peasants against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica. Marc Edelman. Lowell Gudmundson Lowell Gudmundson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 504–506. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-75.4.504 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lowell Gudmun…
William Roseberry (1950-2000): A Remembrance
The feared, expected, and no less shocking news arrived last August. Latin Americanists lost one of their most discerning and elegant practitioners as William “Bill” Roseberry was struck down in the prime of life, at age 50, after a tragically brief battle with cancer. In remembering the contributions of a dear friend and colleague, the circumstances of his passing cast a long shadow as those of us who had come to treasure his friendship still fi…
Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s , by Deborah J. Yashar
Central America, 1821-1871: Liberalism before Liberal Reform
Central America and its ill-fated federation (1824-1839) are often viewed as the archetype of the anarchy of early independent Spanish This book consists of two interralted essays dealing with the economic, social, and political changes that took place in Central America, changes that let to both Liberal regime consolidation and export agricultural development after the middle of the last century. The authors provide a challenging reinterpretatio…
Central American Historiography After the Violence
Now that Central America has ceased to be of serious interest in Washington, the deeper questions that plagued the region's politics during the 1970s and 1980s can finally be addressed with some degree of equanimity. One of the numerous problems bedeviling attempts at social and political analysis over the past two decades has been the weak historiographical tradition throughout the region. Even the most elementary questions that dominated such a…
Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America
The Question of Food Security in Cuban Socialism
Identidades nacionales y Estado moderno en Centroamérica
Somos conscientes en estas páginas de que la historiografía centroamericana todavía tiene problemas con la historia política. No hablemos el que representan los mitos. Esa historia política edificante, que ha supeditado la verdad a la ejemplaridad, con el objeto de imponer un tipo de conducta social. Pero, el estudio de la historia centroamericana tiene, además, grandes lagunas. Hasta ahora en la región ha prevalecido una interpretación que se c…
Lecture Series
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Meeting of Central American Historians
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Black into white in nineteenth century Spanish America: Afro‐American assimilation in Argentina and Costa Rica∗
(1984). Black into white in nineteenth century Spanish America: Afro‐American assimilation in Argentina and Costa Rica. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 34-49
Costa Rica Before Coffee: Occupational Distribution, Wealth Inequality, and Élite Society in the Village Economy of the 1840s
Recent research on Costa Rican social and economic history has made notable advances regarding the classic coffee economy of the 1850-1950 period. Major works by Hall and Stone, and essays by Cardoso, Pérez, Vega, and Samper have offered suggestive new materials and perspectives on the basic dynamics of coffee culture and the social antagonisms which developed within it. Nevertheless, the differences in opinion in this literature on the coffee ec…
Negotiating Rights Under Slavery: The Slaves of San Geronimo (Baja Verapaz, Guatemala) Confront Their Dominican Masters In 1810
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Peasant, Farmer, Proletarian: Class Formation in a Smallholder Coffee Economy, 1850-1950
A LTHOUGH widely referred to as the noble grain through much of Latin America, coffee was produced by a broad variety of social elements, from the peasantry to the plutocracy. Unlike its sister tropical export crop, sugar, coffee cultivation did not always require large production units or farm sizes, nor heavy capital investment in mechanization. While large coffee plantations emerged in several regions, such as slave-based Brazil, Guatemala, an…
Africanos y afrodescendientes en Centroamérica: Fuentes Y Estrategias Recientes Para Su Estudio
Un análisis de novedosas formas de investigar la historia afro-centroamericana durante los siglos 19 y 20. Comenta las fuentes, estrategias y resultados de recientes estudios que rescatan la historia de las poblaciones de ascendencia africana tradicionalmente identificadas con las mayorías mestizas o ladinas y no solamente aquellas del litoral atlántico que comúnmente se reconocen como afroamericanos
Firewater, Desire, and the Militiamen's Christmas Eve in San Geroónimo, Baja Verapaz, 1892
San Gerónimo’s far-flung children—both those still living in the village or surrounding settlements and those who have migrated to the capital of Guatemala City—take great pride in the unrivaled reputation of their communal celebrations. Celebrations for San Gerónimo’s patron saint, for Christmas Eve, for New Year’s Eve, and for Easter Sunday are all marked by elaborate observances complete with costly fireworks. The village, renowned for its pro…
William Roseberry (1950-2000): A Remembrance
The feared, expected, and no less shocking news arrived last August. Latin Americanists lost one of their most discerning and elegant practitioners as William “Bill” Roseberry was struck down in the prime of life, at age 50, after a tragically brief battle with cancer. In remembering the contributions of a dear friend and colleague, the circumstances of his passing cast a long shadow as those of us who had come to treasure his friendship still fi…
Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America
Costa Rica and the 1948 Revolution: Rethinking the Social Democratic Paradigm
Costa Rica's 1948 revolution and its triumphant political expression, the Partido Liberaci6n Nacional, have enjoyed a remarkably favorable press in both popular and academic circles in the United States. Whether extolling it as a model to be followed by its neighbors or simply praising it as a working electoral democracy, academicians and journalists alike have assigned major credit for this phenomenon to Liberaci6n and its pre-1948 core group th…
The Expropriation of Pious and Corporate Properties in Costa Rica, 1805-1860: Patterns in the Consolidation of a National Elite
Conflicts between Church and State, and between liberals and conservatives over the role of the Church, were a constant feature of nineteenth-century Mesoamerican history. These struggles eventually stripped the Church of much of its wealth, with a consequent decline in its political influence. However, the timing of this disinvestiture, the composition of liberal and conservative factions, and the role of the Church varied substantially througho…
Costa Rica Before Coffee: Occupational Distribution, Wealth Inequality, and Élite Society in the Village Economy of the 1840s
Recent research on Costa Rican social and economic history has made notable advances regarding the classic coffee economy of the 1850-1950 period. Major works by Hall and Stone, and essays by Cardoso, Pérez, Vega, and Samper have offered suggestive new materials and perspectives on the basic dynamics of coffee culture and the social antagonisms which developed within it. Nevertheless, the differences in opinion in this literature on the coffee ec…
Black into white in nineteenth century Spanish America: Afro‐American assimilation in Argentina and Costa Rica∗
(1984). Black into white in nineteenth century Spanish America: Afro‐American assimilation in Argentina and Costa Rica. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 34-49
Costa Rica and the 1948 Revolution: Rethinking the Social Democratic Paradigm
Costa Rica's 1948 revolution and its triumphant political expression, the Partido Liberaci6n Nacional, have enjoyed a remarkably favorable press in both popular and academic circles in the United States. Whether extolling it as a model to be followed by its neighbors or simply praising it as a working electoral democracy, academicians and journalists alike have assigned major credit for this phenomenon to Liberaci6n and its pre-1948 core group th…
Costa Rica: A Geographical Interpretation in Historical Perspective
Costa Rica’s Arias at Midterm
Essay| December 01 1987 Costa Rica's Arias at Midterm Lowell Gudmundson Lowell Gudmundson Assistant Professor of History, Oklahoma University Lowell Gudmundson taught for several years in the Costa Rican university system. His publications have appeared in journals in the United States, Europe and Central America, and his most recent book is Costa Rica Before Coffee (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1986). Search for other work…
Costa Rica Before Coffee: Society and Economy on the Eve of the Export Boom
Eadweard Muybridge in Guatemala, 1875: The Photographer as Social Recorder
Economics
Costa Rica before Coffee: Society and Economy on the Eve of the Export Boom
Peasant, Farmer, Proletarian: Class Formation in a Smallholder Coffee Economy, 1850-1950
A LTHOUGH widely referred to as the noble grain through much of Latin America, coffee was produced by a broad variety of social elements, from the peasantry to the plutocracy. Unlike its sister tropical export crop, sugar, coffee cultivation did not always require large production units or farm sizes, nor heavy capital investment in mechanization. While large coffee plantations emerged in several regions, such as slave-based Brazil, Guatemala, an…
Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation
Costa Rica (1800-1850): El legado colonial y la genesis del capitalismo
En la obra "Costa Rica (1800-1850). El legado colonial y la génesis del capitalismo", el autor Iván Molina Jiménez, intenta resumir resultados de investigaciones históricas recientes. El enfoque del autor no se reduce al esquema café-capitalismo-sociedad, sino que muestra interés en el desarrollo de la historia de las mentalidades. \nLa obra sugiere un continuo compromiso con la propuesta analítica de que el capital comercial rápidamente subordin…
Costa Rica (1800-1850): El legado colonial y la génesis del capitalismoHistoria económica y social de Costa Rica: de la colonia a la guerra civil de 1948
Flasco/El Salvador
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Coffee Conference
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Central America
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Identidades nacionales y Estado moderno en Centroamérica
Somos conscientes en estas páginas de que la historiografía centroamericana todavía tiene problemas con la historia política. No hablemos el que representan los mitos. Esa historia política edificante, que ha supeditado la verdad a la ejemplaridad, con el objeto de imponer un tipo de conducta social. Pero, el estudio de la historia centroamericana tiene, además, grandes lagunas. Hasta ahora en la región ha prevalecido una interpretación que se c…
Lecture Series
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Meeting of Central American Historians
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The Question of Food Security in Cuban Socialism
Central America, 1821-1871: Liberalism before Liberal Reform
Central America and its ill-fated federation (1824-1839) are often viewed as the archetype of the anarchy of early independent Spanish This book consists of two interralted essays dealing with the economic, social, and political changes that took place in Central America, changes that let to both Liberal regime consolidation and export agricultural development after the middle of the last century. The authors provide a challenging reinterpretatio…
Central American Historiography After the Violence
Now that Central America has ceased to be of serious interest in Washington, the deeper questions that plagued the region's politics during the 1970s and 1980s can finally be addressed with some degree of equanimity. One of the numerous problems bedeviling attempts at social and political analysis over the past two decades has been the weak historiographical tradition throughout the region. Even the most elementary questions that dominated such a…
Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America
Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s , by Deborah J. Yashar
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