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100	1		_aMunro, Dana Gardner, _d1892-1990
245	1	4	_aThe five republics of Central America
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-06-11
508			_aAaron Adrignola, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520			_a"The five republics of Central America: their political and economic…" by Dana G. Munro is a scholarly historical and political study written in the early 20th century. It analyzes Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica—their geographies, societies, economies, and political institutions since independence—while assessing how foreign, especially U.S., influence shapes their development. Aimed at correcting stereotypes and informing policy, it balances critique with recognition of progress, focusing on class structures, agriculture (coffee and bananas), governance, revolutions, finance, and international relations. The opening of the study sets out Munro’s purpose: to replace superficial caricatures with a careful, firsthand account based on travel, documents, and interviews, and to stress why U.S. understanding matters. It first surveys the land and people, detailing climate zones, the urban elite and its reliance on plantation agriculture, the mestizo artisan class, and the largely Indigenous laboring majority—covering living conditions, wages, disease (including hookworm campaigns), education gaps (strongest in Costa Rica, weakest in Guatemala), and the waning influence of the Catholic Church. It explains how colonial isolation, poor transport, and later the rise of coffee and banana exports (notably United Fruit on the Caribbean coast), railways, and foreign capital reshaped economies and social power, often to the advantage of foreigners. The narrative then sketches Central American political institutions from independence: annexationist debates, the short-lived federation, Liberal–Conservative strife, and the drift toward centralized presidents, sham elections, executive dominance over congress and courts, military conscription, patronage, and pervasive graft, with revolution as the routine means of change. Beginning its country studies with Guatemala, it recounts Conservative rule under Carrera, Liberal triumph under Barrios (anticlerical reforms and failed union bid), and the long, repressive Estrada Cabrera era marked by secret policing, censorship, and low-paid, corrupt officialdom—emphasizing order maintained at the cost of civic life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Oxford University Press, 1918
653			_aCentral America -- Politics and government
653			_aCentral America -- Economic conditions
653			_aCentral America -- Foreign relations -- United States
653			_aUnited States -- Foreign relations -- Central America
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/fiverepublicsofc02munr/page/n13/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76272
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