Coffee and power : revolution and the rise of democracy in Central America / Jeffery M. Paige.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paige, Jeffery M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coffee industry--Costa Rica--History--20th century.

Coffee industry.

Elite (Social sciences).

History.

Politics and government.

Costa Rica.

Coffee industry--El Salvador--History--20th century.

El Salvador.

Coffee industry--Nicaragua--History--20th century.

Nicaragua.

Costa Rica--Politics and government--20th century.

El Salvador--Politics and government--20th century.

Nicaragua--Politics and government--To 1960.

Nicaragua--Politics and government--1960-.

Elite (Social sciences)--Costa Rica--History--20th century.

Elite (Social sciences)--El Salvador--History--20th century.

Elite (Social sciences)--Nicaragua--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xv, 432 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.

Summary:

In the revolutionary decade between 1979 and 1992, it would have been difficult to find three political systems as different as death-squad-dominated El Salvador, peaceful social-democratic Costa Rica, and revolutionary Sandinista Nicaragua. Yet when the fighting ended, all three had found a common destination in democracy and free markets. In a landmark book that fuses political economy and cultural analysis, Jeffery Paige shows that both the divergent political histories and their convergent outcome were shaped by a single commodity: coffee. His analysis challenges current theories of dictatorship and democracy, and shows that revolution in Central America is deeply rooted in the histories of the coffee elites.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0674136489

OCLC:

35198761