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Book Chapters

  • “Puerto Rican Workers and the Struggle for Decent Lives in New York City, 1910s-1970s,” in Joshua Freeman, editor. Labor’s City: A History of Workers and Organized Labor in New York City. Museum of the City of New York. Columbia University Press, 2019.
    • Winner of the 2019 International Labor Historians Association Book of the Year Award.
  • “Discurso liberal, práctica campesina: la privatización de tierras en la región del volcán de San Vicente,” in López Bernal, Carlos Gregorio, (Ed.) Poder, actores sociales y conflictividad, El Salvador: 1786-1972. Colección Cultura y Sociedad. San Salvador: Dirección Nacional de Investigaciones en Cultura y Artes, SECULTURA, 2011.
  • “Land, Production and Trade: Nineteenth-Century Economic and Social Patterns” in A Companion to Latin American History, Thomas Holloway ed., Blackwell Companions to World History. Blackwell Publishing, 2008: 264-284.
  • “The Culture and Politics of State Terror and Repression in El Salvador” in When the State Kills, Cecilia Menjivar and Nestor Rodriguez, eds. University of Texas Press, 2005:  85-114.
  • “Local History, Politics and the State in El Salvador.” in Landscapes of Struggle: Community, Politics in El Salvador. Aldo Lauria Santiago and Leigh Binford, eds. Pittsburgh University Press, 2004: 1-19.
  • “‘That a Poor Man be Industrious:’ Coffee, Community, and Agrarian Capitalism in the Transformation of El Salvador’s Ladino Peasantry, 1760-1900” in Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, edited by Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Aviva Chomsky. Duke University Press, 1998.
  • “Identity and Struggle in the Historiography of the Hispanic Caribbean and Central America 1860-1950.” with Aviva Chomsky in Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, Aviva Chomsky and Aldo Lauria Santiago, eds. Duke University Press, 1998.
  • “Los Indígenas de Cojutepeque, la política faccional, y el estado nacional en El Salvador, 1830-1890” in Construcción de las identidades y del estado moderno en Centro America, Arturo Taracena, ed. (San José: UCA Editores/CEMCA/FLACSO, 1995).
  • “Las bases de la república agraria liberal, 1860-1900” in Historia de El Salvador, Knut Walter, Coord. Ed., (San Salvador: Ministerio de Educación, 1994).