Coffee and power : revolution and the rise of democracy in Central America / Jeffery M. Paige.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.Description: xv, 432 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0674136489 (alk. paper)
- Coffee industry -- Costa Rica -- History -- 20th century
- Coffee industry -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century
- Coffee industry -- Nicaragua -- History -- 20th century
- Elite (Social sciences) -- Costa Rica -- History -- 20th century
- Elite (Social sciences) -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century
- Elite (Social sciences) -- Nicaragua -- History -- 20th century
- Costa Rica -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- El Salvador -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Nicaragua -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- 338.1/7373/09728 20
- HD9199.C82 P35 1997
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | National Defence College (NDC) Library | HD9199.C82 P35 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 1438/98 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-424) and index.
"Extraordinary wealth and variety of historiographical, interview, and statistical data undergird a critical application of Barrington Moore's theses on revolution and democracy to the cases of Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Three different class-and-state structures, largely generated by their coffee economies, are analyzed by dividing the upper classes into (purely) agrarian elites and their agroindustrial (processor/exporter) counterparts. A deepening split between them paved the recent path toward democratization in both El Salvador and Nicaragua. Costa Rica's earlier, smoother democratization is accounted for by the processor-grower social pact of the 1930s. Yet all three arrived arrived at more democratic, though flawed, neoliberal systems by the 1990s"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
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