TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paige,Jeffery M.
TI  - Coffee and power: revolution and the rise of democracy in Central America 
SN  - 0674136489 (alk. paper)
AV  - HD9199.C82 P35 1997
U1  - 338.1/7373/09728 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Coffee industry
KW  - Costa Rica
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - El Salvador
KW  - Nicaragua
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-424) and index
N2  - "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
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=2049
ER  -