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Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880–1930 (Ohio RIS Latin America Series)

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Many scholars of Latin The us have argued that the introduction of coffee forced the general public to develop into landless proletarians toiling on large plantations. Cultivating Coffee tells a different story: small and medium-sized growers in Nicaragua were an important a part of the economy, constituting the majority of the farmers and holding some of the land.

Alongside these small commercial farmers used to be a group of subsistence farmers, created by the state’s commitment to supplying municipal lands to communities. These subsistence growers became the personnel for their coffee-growing neighbors, providing harvest labor three months a year. Mostly illiterate, perhaps in large part indigenous, they nonetheless learned the functioning of the new political and economic systems and used them to acquire individual plots of land.

Julie Charlip’s Cultivating Coffee joins the growing scholarship on rural Latin The us that demonstrates the complexity of the processes of transition to expanded export agriculture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, emphasizing the agency of actors at all levels of society. It also sheds new light on the controversy surrounding landholding in Nicaragua throughout the Sandinista revolution.

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