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Author Charlip, Julie A., 1954-

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

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : maps
Series Ohio University research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 39
Research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 39.
Contents Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Setting the Stage -- Chapter 3 Public Land for Private Use -- Chapter 4 The Land Market -- Chapter 5 Cultivating Coffee -- Chapter 6 Capital Concerns -- Chapter 7 Lamenting about Labor -- Chapter 8 Social Structures -- Chapter 9 Politics and Public Works -- Chapter 10 Conclusions -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary Annotation "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. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Analysis Café Nicaragua Carazo Historia
Café Aspectos económicos Nicaragua Carazo Historia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-282)
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Subject Coffee -- Nicaragua -- Carazo -- History
Coffee -- Economic aspects -- Nicaragua -- Carazo -- History
Coffee.
Coffee -- Economic aspects.
Kaffeeanbau
Koffieproductie.
Landbouw.
Nicaragua -- Carazo.
Nicaragua
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0896804291
9780896804296
0896802272
9780896802278