Presents a more complex portrait of El Salvador, using thoroughly researched regional case studies, challenging the accepted vision of Central America in the nineteenth century and revealing the existence of a diverse, commercially active peasantry that was deeply involved with local and national networks of power.

A detailed study based on notarial and other archives of small and medium coffee cultivators. Part 1 discusses landholding, credit, labor, production process in coffee economy; part 2 traces specific families. A useful work of social and agricultural history which illuminates complementary roles of large and small landholdings.

This book tells the story of a remote village in Honduras that was transformed almost overnight from a sleepy coffee-growing community to a hotbed of undocumented migration to and from the United States. The small village was once home to a thriving coffee economy but has become dependent on migrants working in distant places like Long Island and South Dakota, who live in ways that most Honduran townspeople struggle to comprehend.

This book traces the history of Buena Vista, an estate located in the southern foothills of Puerto Rico's central mountain range. Now a popular living history museum, Buena Vista flourished in the nineteenth century--first as a farm that furnished food for the city of Ponce and surrounding plantations, later as a producer of corn and cornmeal ground at the estate's water-powered mill, and finally as a coffee plantation. Drawing on an impressive range of primary sources, Guillermo Baralt portrays the estate's history as a series of overlapping changes: from slavery to salaried labor, from primitive processing techniques to the latest in mill technology, from Spanish rule to American control, and from hard-scrabble country life to life as part of the world marketplace.

Beginning with an overview of coffee culture in Latin America, this book looks at commercial aspects, sustainability, technological trends and possibilities for the future.

Offers an authoritative one-volume survey of this complex region. The book traces the Caribbean from its pre-Columbian state through European contact and colonialism to the rise of U.S. hegemony and the economic turbulence of the twenty-first century.

In this book, an international group of historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine the production, processing, and marketing of this important commodity. Using coffee as a common denominator and focusing on landholding patterns, labor mobilization, class structure, political power, and political ideologies, the authors examine how Latin American countries of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries responded to the growing global demand for coffee.

This is an Important contribution to rural sociology and peasant studies that is based on fieldwork (1974-76) in a Venezuelan coffee-producing region. Presents social, economic, and political history of the area with special attention to the formation and transformation of a property-owning, commodity-producing peasantry.

Focusing on a cooperative in Guatemala-and its relationships with coffee roasters, importers, and certifiers in the United States, this book argues that while fair trade does benefit small coffee-farming communities, it is more flawed than advocates and scholars have acknowledged.

Bergquist's analysis of this transitional period in terms of what has been called the dependency theory has left his mark on all subsequent studies in Latin American affairs. He has also provided a major contribution to Colombian history by his examination of the growth of the coffee industry and Thousand Days War.

A political, economic and cultural analysis of how a single commodity shaped the histories of El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. Both the divergent political histories and their convergent outcome were shaped by coffee, a commodity that has dominated these export economies since the 19th century.. The book explores the crisis of the 1980s and its roots, compares the history, economics, and class structures of all three countries, and presents interviews with the leaders of the elite dynasties, who tell their story of the Central American revolution.

A thoughtful study of the growth of coffee agriculture in Puerto Rico based on primary sources and focusing on the Lares municipality. Emphasizes the role of immigrant entrepreneurs, persistence of family holdings, and impact of export agriculture. Both a case study of transformation of systems of land and labor and a contribution to the analysis of dependency and underdevelopment.

Few coffee drinkers know this story that centers on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, England, founded one of the world's great coffee dynasties at the turn of the twentieth century. Adapting the innovations of the Industrial Revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history--a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence.

This book provides a reinterpretation of modern Costa Rican history, disputing the "white legend" of Costa Rica. It includes well-documented descriptions of the process by which the coffee elite developed and created the myth of Costa Rican egalitarianism.

This volume is part of "The People of Puerto Rico: A Study in Social Anthropology", It provides an in-depth ethnographic and historical overview of "San José", a peasant coffee-producing community in Puerto Rico.

This book tells the story of the coffee plantation La Denise, erected by French immigrant Francisco Rouviere Durán on the outskirts of Matanzas (Cuba), The history of that plantation, of the family and especially of the slaves who inhabited it, is constructed not only from the historical documents, but from the material evidence found during the archaeological excavations that were carried out on the site.

Between 1870-1930, Venezuela's Andean regions became important producers of coffee and part of an international trade network . Production and commercialization of coffee had profound effects upon urbanization. Coffee production served as the sole source of support of the urban network, and ultimately the cause of its weakness. Despite modernization, no social changes in structure occurred; and differences between urban and rural areas widened.

Traces the history of coffee growing in Haiti in detail, from colonial times to the present, including structure of internal and external marketing of the product. This is a translation of the original work (Paris: Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1981).

This book explores the history of the Dominican Republic as it evolved from the first European colony in the Americas into a modern nation under the rule of Rafael Trujillo. It investigates the social foundations of Trujillo's exceptionally enduring and brutal dictatorship (1930-1961) and, more broadly, the way power is sustained in such non-democratic regimes. The author reveals how the seemingly unilateral imposition of power by Trujillo in fact depended on the regime's mediation of profound social and economic transformations, especially through agrarian policies that assisted the nation's large independent peasantry.

Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, this book examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. Historians from Latin America, England, and the United States trace the paths of many of Latin America's most important exports: coffee, bananas, rubber, sugar, tobacco, silver, henequen (fiber), fertilizers, cacao, cocaine, indigo, and cochineal.. They show how changes in coffee consumption habits, clothing fashions, drug usage, or tire technologies in Europe, Asia, and the Americas reverberate through Latin American commodity chains in profound ways.

For five hundred years coffee has been grown in tropical countries for consumption in temperate regions. This volume brings together scholars from nine countries who study coffee markets and societies over the last five centuries in fourteen countries, with a special emphasis on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The chapters analyze the creation and function of commodity, labor, and financial markets; the role of race, ethnicity, gender, and class in the formation of coffee societies; the interaction between technology and ecology; and the impact of colonial powers, nationalist regimes, and the forces of the world economy in the forging of economic development and political democracy.

This book relies on archaeological record, oral history, and architectural analysis to describe processes of production and marketing of coffee in19th century Puerto Rico.. It offers valuable insights on connections between the layout and function of the production units (haciendas) and the commercial establishments (tahonas). It also addresses coffee industry's role in displacing peasants in the highlands and promoting foreign control of the economy.

The book brings together a fine-grained analysis of multilingualism with urgent issues in Latin America today, including land rights, poverty, drug trafficking, and the devastation of the world's largest forest.

Offers a detailed analysis of the coffee industry in Nicaragua, including aspects of local production, processing, export, and commercialization in importing countries. Shows data on the shrinking percentage of total sale revenues accruing to local producers. Proposes new marketing and quality enhancing strategies so as to increase the margins obtained by local firms. Provides good insights into the intricacies of national and international coffee trade. Rigorous analysis of actions aimed at counteracting existing downward tendencies in the coffee business.

Picó offers an investigation of the impact of coffee culture on a small rural Puerto Rican community during 19th century. It focuses on working classes, their daily life and the Church's role in this community.

In the early years of the coffee boom in El Salvador, strategically situated landowners and merchants consolidated themselves in power over both state and economy, enacting policies that resulted in exaggerated inequalities and that led to violence in the 20th century. A well-documented study.

Dore maintains that coffee growing gave rise to systems of landowning and labor exploitation that impeded rather than promoted capitalist development. She places gender at the forefront of her analysis, which demonstrates that patriarchy was the organizing principle of the coffee economy's debt-peonage system until the 1950s, combining archival research, oral history, and a theoretical approach that unites political economy with social history.

The classic survey of Latin America's social and cultural history, with an introduction by Isabel Allende. Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also a social and cultural narrative, and a description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.

This book focuses on the impact of three key export commodities: coffee, henequen, and petroleum. The authors concentrate on these rather than on national economies because they illustrate more concretely the interaction between the environment, natural and human resources, and the world economy. By analyzing how different products spun complex webs of relationships with their respective markets, the essays in this book illuminate the tensions and contradictions found in the often conflictive relationship between the local and the global, between agency and the not-so-invisible hand.

To gain a deeper understanding of plantation slavery in Cuba, Van Norman explores what life and labor was like for coffee slaves and how it was different from what sugar slaves experienced. Shade-Grown Slavery reconstructs their world and in turn deconstructs the picture we now have of Cuba in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The book reveals the lives of enslaved Africans on Cuban coffee plantations and shows how they were able to maintain and transform their cultural traditions in spite of slavery.

Papers presented at 1990 conference on agrarian societies organized by the Escuela de Historia, Univ. Nacional de Costa Rica (Heredia, Costa Rica). They provide a useful introduction to the comparative history of coffee in Central America.