Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America

Name: Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America
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ISBN: 9780801848872

ISBN-10: 0801848873

ISBN-13: 9780801848872

Edition: 1995

Authors: William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson, Mario Samper Kutschbach

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In January 1927 Gus Comstock, a barbershop porter in the small Minnesota town of Fergus Falls, drank eighty cups of coffee in seven hours and fifteen minutes. The New York Times reported that near the end, amid a cheering crowd, the man's "gulps were labored, but a physician examining him found him in pretty good shape." The event was part of a marathon coffee-drinking spree set off two years earlier by news from the Commerce Department that coffee imports to the United States amounted to five hundred cups per year per person. In Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America, a distinguished international group of historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine the production,…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.02" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



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List of Tables


Preface



Introduction




"From Plantation to Cup": Coffee and Capitalism in the United States, 1830-1930




The Labors of Coffee in Latin America: The Hidden Charm of Family Labor and Self-Provisioning




Coffee and the Rise of Commercial Agriculture in Puerto Rico's Highlands: The Occupation and Loss of Land in Guaonico and Roncador (Utuado), 1833-1900




Peasant, Farmer, Proletarian: Class Formation in a Smallholder Coffee Economy, 1850-1950




In Difficult Times: Colombian and Costa Rican Coffee Growers from Prosperity to Crisis, 1920-1936




Labor System and Collective Action in a Coffee Export Sector: Sao Paulo




Wage Labor, Free Labor, and Vagrancy Laws: The Transition to Capitalism in Guatemala, 1920-1945




Indians, Communists, and Peasants: The 1932 Rebellion in El Salvador




At the Banquet of Civilization: The Limits of Planter Hegemony in Early-Twentieth-Century Colombia



Contributors


Index