Intro -- Contents -- Local History, Politics, and the State in El Salvador / Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Leigh Binford -- Section One. Linking the Local with the National-Prewar Salvadoran History Reconsidered -- Land, Community, and Revolt in Late Nineteenth-Century Indian Izalco / Aldo Lauria-Santiago -- The Formation of the Urban Middle sectors in El Salvador, 1910-1944 / Victor Hugo Acuna Ortega -- Patronage and Politics under General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez, 1931-1939: The Local Roots of Military Authoritarianism in El Salvador / Erik Ching -- Colonels and Industrial Workers in El Salvador, 1944-1972: Seeking Societal Support through Gendered Labor Reforms / Kati Griffith and Leslie Gates -- The Formation of a Rural Community: Joya de Ceren, 1954-1995 / Carlos Benjamin Lara Martinez -- Section Two. Civil War and Its Aftermath: Local Politics and Community -- Peasants, Catechists, Revolutionaries: Organic Intellectuals in the Salvadoran Revolution, 1980-1992 / Leigh Binford -- Civil War and Reconstruction: The Repopulation of Tenancingo / Elisabeth J. Wood -- Between Clientelism and Radical Democracy: The Case of Ciudad Segundo Montes / Vincent J. McElhinny -- Not Revolutionary Enough? Community Rebuilding in Postwar Chalatenango / Irina Carlota Silber -- The Salvadoran Land Struggle in the 1990s: Cohesion, Commitment, and Corruption / Lisa Kowalchuk -- Section Three: Culture and Ideology in Contemporary El Salvador -- This Is Not Culture!": The |