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In this new analysis of Honduran social and political development, Dar degreeso Euraque explains why Honduras escaped the pattern of revolution and civil wars suffered by its neighbors Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Within this comparative framework, he challenges the traditional Banana Republic 'theory' and its assumption that multinational corporations completely controlled state formation in Central America. Instead, he demonstrates how local society in Honduras's North Coast banana-exporting region influenced national political development. According to Euraque, the reformism of the 1970s, which prevented social and political polarization in the 1980s, originated in the local pol...
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The contributions gathered in this volume revisit the two centuries that have elapsed since Central America's independence in 1821. This highly complex political emancipation, together with the cultural and ethnic heterogeneity of the region, are reflected in the book, in which the multidimensionality of the historical processes, the persistent structures and the particularities of the Central American region are made evident.