A Coffee Frontier: Land, Society, and Politics in Duaca, Venezuela, 1830-1936

by Doug Yarrington

Book Overview

This study views the economic transformation of Duaca, Venezuela into a major coffee export center in the late nineteenth century. Yarrington examines the rise of the peasantry to prosperity, yet they later lost their stature as the local elite allied itself with the state to restructure society and coffee production on its own terms in the twentieth-century. The book is a pioneering study on peasant studies, export-led development, the relationship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822956322
• ISBN13: 9780822956327
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"