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Cultivating coffee : the farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930

Title
Cultivating coffee : the farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930 / Julie A. Charlip.
Author
Charlip, Julie A., 1954-
Publication
Athens : Ohio University Press, 2003.

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Description
xiv, 288 pages : maps; 22 cm.
Summary
  • "Many Scholars of Latin America have argued that the introduction of coffee forced most people to become landless proletarians toiling on large plantations. Cultivating Coffee tells a different story: small and medium-sized growers were a vital part of the Nicaraguan economy, constituting the majority of the farmers and holding most of the land.".
  • "Alongside these small commercial farmers was a group of subsistence farmers, created by the state's commitment to supplying municipal lands to communities. These subsistence growers became the workforce for their coffee-growing neighbors, providing harvest labor three months a year. Mostly illiterate, perhaps largely indigenous, they learned to work within the new political and economic systems and used them to acquire individual plots of land.".
  • "Julie Charlip's Cultivating Coffee joins the growing scholarship on rural Latin America that demonstrates the complexity of the processes of transition to expanded export agriculture and sheds new light on the controversy surrounding landholding in Nicaragua during the Sandinista revolution."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 39
Uniform Title
Research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 39.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Setting the Stage -- 3. Public Land for Private Use -- 4. The Land Market -- 5. Cultivating Coffee -- 6. Capital Concerns -- 7. Lamenting about Labor -- 8. Social Structures -- 9. Politics and Public Works -- 10. Conclusions.
ISBN
0896802272 (pbk.)
LCCN
2002070418
OCLC
  • ocm49727920
  • SCSB-4329866
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries