Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930

Julie A. Charlip

ISBN 10: 0896802272 / ISBN 13: 9780896802278

Edité par Ohio University Press, 2003

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This study questions the idea that the introduction of coffee to Latin America forced most people to become landless proles working on large plantations. It suggests that small and medium-sized growers in Nicaragua were vital to the economy, constituting the farming and land-owning majority. Series: Ohio RIS Latin America Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; JFSF; KCZ; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 130 x 585. Weight in Grams: 363. . 2003. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

N° de réf. du vendeur V9780896802278

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930
• Éditeur: Ohio University Press
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0896802272
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780896802278
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

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 in Nicaragua were a vital part of the 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 nonetheless learned the functioning of 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 in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, emphasizing the agency of actors at all levels of society. It also sheds new light on the controversy surrounding landholding in Nicaragua during the Sandinista revolution.

À propos de l?auteur

Julie A. Charlip is an associate professor of history at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She is co-author of the seventh edition of Latin America: A Concise Interpretive History, originally written by the late E. Bradford Burns.