A Coffee Frontier: Land, Society, and Politics in Duaca, Venezuela, 1830-1936
(Part of the Pitt Latin American Studies Series)
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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"
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