Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America

The book will be of interest not only to experts on coffee economies but to students and scholars of Latin America, labor history, the economics ofdevelopment, and political economy.

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A distinguished international group of historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examines the production, processing, and marketing of coffee. Using this important commodity as a common denominator and focusing on landholding patterns, labor mobilization, class structure, and political ideologies, the authors examine how Latin American countries of the late 19th and early 20th centuries responded to the growing global demand for coffee.