Paige, Jeffery M. <br/><br/>
Coffee and power :  revolution and the rise of democracy in Central America / 
Jeffery M. Paige. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Harvard University Press,  1997. 
 - xv, 432 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-424) and index. 
<br/><br/> "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.  http://www.loc.gov/hlas/ 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0674136489 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96034693  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Coffee industry--History--Costa Rica--20th century.<br/>Coffee industry--History--El Salvador--20th century.<br/>Coffee industry--History--Nicaragua--20th century.<br/>Elite (Social sciences)--History--Costa Rica--20th century.<br/>Elite (Social sciences)--History--El Salvador--20th century.<br/>Elite (Social sciences)--History--Nicaragua--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Costa Rica--Politics and government--20th century.<br/>El Salvador--Politics and government--20th century.<br/>Nicaragua--Politics and government--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD9199.C82  / P35 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.1/7373/09728