Coffee in Colombia, 1850-1970
Title | Coffee in Colombia, 1850-1970 PDF eBook |
Author | Marco Palacios |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2002-07-25 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521528597 |
This is the first English-language history of Colombia as a coffee-producer.
El café en Colombia, 1850-1970
Title | El café en Colombia, 1850-1970 PDF eBook |
Author | Marco Palacios |
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Pages | 546 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Publisher | Siglo del Hombre Editores |
Pages | 250 |
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Cafe en Colombia, 1850 1970 : una historia economica social y politica
Title | Cafe en Colombia, 1850 1970 : una historia economica social y politica PDF eBook |
Author | Marco Antonio Palacios Rozo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 429 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Cafe - Colombia |
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Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America
Title | Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | William Roseberry |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801848841 |
In January 1927 Gus Comstock, a barbershop porter in the small Minnesota town of Fergus Falls, drank eighty cups of coffee in seven hours and fifteen minutes. The New York Times reported that near the end, amid a cheering crowd, the man's "gulps were labored, but a physician examining him found him in pretty good shape." The event was part of a marathon coffee-drinking spree set off two years earlier by news from the Commerce Department that coffee imports to the United States amounted to five hundred cups per year per person. In Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America, a distinguished international group of historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine the production, processing, and marketing of this important commodity. Using coffee as a common denominator and focusing on landholding patterns, labor mobilization, class structure, political power, and political ideologies, the authors examine how Latin American countries of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries responded to the growing global demand for coffee. This unique volume offers an integrated comparative study of class formation in the coffee zones of Latin America as they were incorporated into the world economy. It offers a new theoretical and methodological approach to comparative historical analysis and will serve as a critique and counter to those who stress the homogenizing tendencies of export agriculture. The book will be of interest not only to experts on coffee economies but also to students and scholars of Latin America, labor history, the economics ofdevelopment, and political economy.
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History PDF eBook |
Author | Jose C. Moya |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 551 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195166205 |
This Oxford Handbook comprehensively examines the field of Latin American history.
Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and the Mexican Revolution
Title | Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and the Mexican Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Fowler-Salamini |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2020-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1496211642 |
In the 1890s, Spanish entrepreneurs spearheaded the emergence of Córdoba, Veracruz, as Mexico’s largest commercial center for coffee preparation and export to the Atlantic community. Seasonal women workers quickly became the major part of the agroindustry’s labor force. As they grew in numbers and influence in the first half of the twentieth century, these women shaped the workplace culture and contested gender norms through labor union activism and strong leadership. Their fight for workers’ rights was supported by the revolutionary state and negotiated within its industrial-labor institutions until they were replaced by machines in the 1960s. Heather Fowler-Salamini’s Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and the Mexican Revolution analyzes the interrelationships between the region’s immigrant entrepreneurs, workforce, labor movement, gender relations, and culture on the one hand, and social revolution, modernization, and the Atlantic community on the other between the 1890s and the 1960s. Using extensive archival research and oral-history interviews, Fowler-Salamini illustrates the ways in which the immigrant and women’s work cultures transformed Córdoba’s regional coffee economy and in turn influenced the development of the nation’s coffee agro-export industry and its labor force.