| TITLE: |
Coffee and power : revolution and the rise of democracy in Central America / Jeffery M. Paige. |
| AUTHOR: |
Paige, Jeffery M. |
| PUBLISHED: |
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
xv, 432 p. ; 24 cm. |
| NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-424) and index. |
| NOTES: |
"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/ |
| SUBJECT: |
Coffee industry--Costa Rica--History--20th century. |
| SUBJECT: |
Coffee industry--El Salvador--History--20th century. |
| SUBJECT: |
Coffee industry--Nicaragua--History--20th century. |
| SUBJECT: |
Costa Rica--Politics and government--20th century. |
| SUBJECT: |
El Salvador--Politics and government--20th century. |
| SUBJECT: |
Nicaragua--Politics and government--To 1960. |
| SUBJECT: |
Nicaragua--Politics and government--1960- |
| SUBJECT: |
Elite (Social sciences)--Costa Rica--History--20th century. |
| SUBJECT: |
Elite (Social sciences)--El Salvador--History--20th century. |
| SUBJECT: |
Elite (Social sciences)--Nicaragua--History--20th century. |
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