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Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America
Jeffery M. Paige
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Description for Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America
Paperback. This text fuses political economy and cultural analysis to show that both the divergent political histories and the convergent outcome of death-dominated El Salvador, peaceful social-democratic Costa Rica, and revolutionary Sandinista Nicaragua were shaped by a single commodity: coffee. Num Pages: 448 pages, 2 figures, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; 1KLCR; 1KLCS; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJK; HBLW; HBTV; JPHV; JPWQ; KCC; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 668.
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 was finally ended by a peace plan initiated by Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias, all three had found a common destination in democracy and free markets. To explain this extraordinary turn of events is the task of this landmark book, which fuses political economy and cultural analysis.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674136496
SKU
V9780674136496
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About Jeffery M. Paige
Jeffery M. Paige is Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Reviews for Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America
A sweeping historical analysis of the encouraging yet still fragile emergence of democracy in Central America...Through exhaustive historical research and enterprising interviews, [the author] penetrates the worlds of the most powerful families of El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica...Paige has illuminated a path for comprehending countries whose histories have often been caricatured by polemicists and ignored by policy makers.
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