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Jeffery M. Paige, Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America

Jeffery M. Paige, Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America 86 BOOK REVIEW racy. Multinational firms have begun to replace the their relatives who left coffee production for academic traditional coffee elites, economically if not culturally professions, etc. In Costa Rica, cooperative members and politically. weren’t interviewed; it would have been interesting, Paige does not try to draw parallels with Colombia since the coops are successful, run by smallholder or Brazil, much less with coffee producing countries farmers, and have expanded at the expense of the elites, outside Latin America. Guatemala is discussed a little, with government help. He did not talk to workers and but it would have been useful to have some discussion peasants, although he makes conclusions about them of Honduras. Although Paige dismisses Honduras as (e.g., that coffee pickers in Costa Rica are left out of the “Banana Republic,” there is some coffee grown the “Coffee Culture.”) there, and much of it is grown by peasant farmers. The book has few mechanical problems, although It would have made an interesting comparison, espe- in Table 1, on land area and coffee per country, it cially since Honduras also avoided open civil war is unclear if the land units are hectares or manzanas. during the 1980s, although http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Jeffery M. Paige, Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America

Bentley, Jeffery
Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 16 (1) – Jun 5, 2004
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Copyright © 1999 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine; History; Evolutionary Biology
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0889-048X
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10.1023/A:1007577406036
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86 BOOK REVIEW racy. Multinational firms have begun to replace the their relatives who left coffee production for academic traditional coffee elites, economically if not culturally professions, etc. In Costa Rica, cooperative members and politically. weren’t interviewed; it would have been interesting, Paige does not try to draw parallels with Colombia since the coops are successful, run by smallholder or Brazil, much less with coffee producing countries farmers, and have expanded at the expense of the elites, outside Latin America. Guatemala is discussed a little, with government help. He did not talk to workers and but it would have been useful to have some discussion peasants, although he makes conclusions about them of Honduras. Although Paige dismisses Honduras as (e.g., that coffee pickers in Costa Rica are left out of the “Banana Republic,” there is some coffee grown the “Coffee Culture.”) there, and much of it is grown by peasant farmers. The book has few mechanical problems, although It would have made an interesting comparison, espe- in Table 1, on land area and coffee per country, it cially since Honduras also avoided open civil war is unclear if the land units are hectares or manzanas. during the 1980s, although

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Published: Jun 5, 2004

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