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

Name: Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 1500-1989
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ISBN: 9780521521727

ISBN-10: 0521521726

ISBN-13: 9780521521727

Edition: 2003

Authors: William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Steven Topik

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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 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…

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List price: $64.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 508
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English




Introduction: Coffee and Global Development




Origins of the World Coffee Economy



The integration of the world coffee market




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




The origins and development of coffee production in Rsunion and Madagascar, 1711-1960




The coffee crisis in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, 1870-1914




The historical construction of quality and competitiveness: a preliminary discussion of coffee commodity chains




Peasants: Race, Gender, and Property



Coffee cultivation in Java, 1830-1907




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




Coffee and indigenous labor in Guatemala, 1871-1980




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




Small farmers and coffee in Nicaragua




Coffee, Politics, and State Building



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




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




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




On paths not taken: commercial capital and coffee production in Costa Rica




Coffee and development of the Rio de Janeiro economy: 1888-1920




Conclusion: New Propositions and a Research Agenda