States and Social Evolution: Coffee and the Rise of National Governments in Central America - Softcover

Williams, Robert G.

 
9780807844632: States and Social Evolution: Coffee and the Rise of National Governments in Central America
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807844632 ISBN 13: 9780807844632
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

The national governments of Central America were constructed between 1840 and 1900, a time when coffee was transformed from a botanical curiosity to the region's most important export. In spite of their geographic proximity, the national governments that emerged were strikingly different, from Costa Rica's participatory democracy to Guatemala's military despotism. Robert Williams explores Central America's political diversity by following the story of coffee through the nation-building period. With a sensitivity to cultures and institutions before the advent of widespread coffee cultivation, he reveals the various ways that land, labor, and capital were harnessed as coffee advanced from one locale to the next, provoking cultural clashes and sometimes violent reactions as it altered landscapes, people's lives, and even governments. Through careful scrutiny of a tiny region and a single crop in a restless age, States and Social Evolution develops a theory of state formation relevant to other places and times as well.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert G. Williams, Voehringer Professor of Economics at Guilford College, is author of Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America.

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Verlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807844632
ISBN 13 
9780807844632
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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