Myths of ModernityIn Myths of Modernity, Elizabeth Dore rethinks Nicaraguas transition to capitalism. Arguing against the idea that the countrys capitalist transformation was ushered in by the coffee boom that extended from 1870 to 1930, she maintains that coffee growing gave rise to systems of landowning and labor exploitation that impeded rather than promoted capitalist development. Dore places gender at the forefront of her analysis, which demonstrates that