Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Domestic Units and Social Environment; An Historical Context; Issues and Non-issues; A Conceptual Framework; 3 The First Migrants; Historical-geographic Setting; Early Settlement; Agrarian Changes and Colonization; 4 A Society of Settlers; Ambivalent Interactions; The Settlers; Units of Production in the 1850s; 5 Sons and Daughters of Settlers; Immigrants, Neighbors, Emigrants; Changing Patterns on the Land; Domestic Units and Estates
6 A New Generation of MigrantsLimited Options; Landowners and Day-laborers; Labors of the Land; Dilemmas; 7 Epilogue: Uniqueness and Convergent Paths; The Northwest; Costa Rica; Latin America and the Caribbean; Glossary; Bibliography; Index