Die Sklavenbefreiung in Brasilien, eine soziale Frage fur die Kirche? Die Katholische Kirche und das Ende der Sklaverei in der Kaffeeprovinz Sao Paulo, 1871-1888 (review)
riences of these few hundred people cannot stand for all of Panama’s poor, they are nonetheless broadly representative. In this respect, although Rudolf makes good use of earlier work (especially Steven Gudeman’s now classic studies of peasant life in Veraguas), she would have strengthened her conclusions by comparison with Stanley Heckadon Moreno’s Cuando se acaban los montes (Editorial Universitaria; Instituto de Investigaciones Tropicales Smithsonian, 1983), which deals with some of the same transformations in Los Santos Province. In a fitting tribute to Rudolf’s committed research, a Spanish-language edition of the monograph was presented to the public in the town of Coclé in July 2000 at an event attended by Panamanian social scientists and many of the inhabitants of Loma Bonita.