Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930

by Julie A. Charlip

Many scholars of Latin America have argued that the introduction of coffee forced most people to become landless proletarians toiling on large plantations. Cultivating Coffee tells a different story: small and medium-sized growers in Nicaragua were a vital part of the economy, constituting the majority of the farmers and holding most of the land.

Alongside these small commercial farmers was a group of subsistence farmers, created by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896802272
• ISBN13: 9780896802278
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 8.4"