Coffee and power : revolution and the rise of democracy in Central America

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Coffee and power : revolution and the rise of democracy in Central America

Jeffery M. Paige

Harvard University Press, 1997

  • : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 ended by a peace plan initiated by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, all three had found a common destination in democracy and free markets. This book aims to explain this turn of events, exploring political, economic and cultural analysis. Both the divergent political histories and their convergent outcome were shaped by a single commodity that has dominated these export economies since the 19th century - coffee. The book explores the crisis of the 1980s and its roots, compares the history, economics, and class structures of all three countries, and presents interviews with the leaders of the elite dynasties, who tell their story of the Central American revolution. The book aims to challenge contemporary approaches to "transitions to democracy", and shows that a focus on either political economy or culture alone cannot account for the transformation of elite ideology.

目次

  • Part 1 Social origins of the Central American crisis: revolution and the coffee elite
  • class and class relations. Part 2 History and memory - the crisis of the 1930s: Farabundo Marti and the failure of revolutionary socialism
  • Manuel Mora and the rise of Euro-communism
  • Augusto Cesar Sandino and the failure of revolutionary nationalism. Part 3 Narratives of class - the crisis of the 1980s: agro-industrialists versus agrarian in El Salvador
  • democracy and anti-communism in Costa Rica
  • neo-liberalism and agro-industry in Costa Rica
  • liberty and the 'Contra' in Nicaragua. Part 4 Social transformation and elite narrative, 1979-1992: democracy and revolution
  • from liberalism to neo-liberalism. Appendices: marriages and descendents of children of James Hill and Dolores Bernal Najera
  • selection of the interview population.

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