The global coffee economy in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 1500-1989 / edited by William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Steven Topik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clarence-Smith, W. G., 1948- editor.

Topik, Steven, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coffee industry--Africa--History.

Coffee industry.

Coffee industry--Asia--History.

Coffee industry--Latin America--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 486 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, & Latin America, 1500-1989

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Coffee beans grown in Brazil, Colombia, Vietnam, or one of the other hundred producing lands on five continents remain a palpable and long-standing manifestation of globalization. For five hundred years coffee has been grown in tropical countries for consumption in temperate regions. This 2003 volume brings together scholars from nine countries who study coffee markets and societies over the last five centuries in fourteen countries on four continents and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with a special emphasis on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The chapters analyse the creation and function of commodity, labour, and financial markets; the role of race, ethnicity, gender, and class in the formation of coffee societies; the interaction between technology and ecology; and the impact of colonial powers, nationalist regimes, and the forces of the world economy in the forging of economic development and political democracy.

Contents:

The integration of the world coffee market / Steven Topik

Coffee in the Red Sea area from the 16th to the 19th century / Michel Tuchscherer

The origins and development of coffee production in Réunion and Madagascar, 1711-1960 / Gwyn Campbell

The coffee crisis in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, 1870-1914 / William Gervase Clarence-Smith

The historical construction of quality and competitiveness: a preliminary discussion of coffee commodity chains / Mario Samper K.

Coffee cultivation in Java, 1830-1907 / M.R. Fernando

Labor, race and gender on the coffee plantations in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 1834-1880 / Rachel Kurien

Coffee and indigenous labor in Guatemala, 1871-1980 / David McCreery

Patriarchy from above, patriarchy from below, debt peonage on Nicaraguan coffee estates, 1870-1930 / Elizabeth Dore

Small farmers and coffee in Nicaragua / Julie Charlip

Coffee and recolonization of Highland Chiapas, Mexico: Indian communities and plantation labor, 1892-1912 / Jan Rus

Comparing coffee production in Cameroon and Tanzania, c. 1900 to 1960s: land, labor and politics / Andreas Eckert

Smaller is better: a consensus of peasants and bureaucrats in colonial Tanganyika / Kenneth Curtis

On paths not taken: commercial capital and coffee production in Costa Rica / Lowell Gudmundson / Coffee and development of the Rio de Janeiro economy: 1888-1920 / Hildete Pereira de Melo

Conclusion: New Propositions and a Research Agenda / Steven Topik and William Gervase Clarence-Smith

Appendix: Historical statistics of coffee production and trade from 1700 to 1960 / Mario Samper and Radin Fernando.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-09527-9

1-107-13547-8

0-511-51219-8

1-280-16295-3

0-511-06984-7

0-511-06138-2

0-511-30691-1

0-511-12099-0

0-511-20407-8

0-521-52172-6

Publisher Number:

2027/heb30992 hdl