Coffee and Power Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America |
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Author:
| Paige, Jeffery M. |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-13649-6 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1998 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $38.00 |
Book Description:
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In the revolutionary years between 1979 and 1992, it would have been difficult to find three political systems as different as El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, yet they found a common destination in democracy and free markets. Paige shows that the divergent political histories and the convergent outcome were shaped by one commodity: coffee.
In the revolutionary years between 1979 and 1992, it would have been difficult to find three political systems as different as El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, yet they found a common destination in democracy and free markets. Paige shows that the divergent political histories and the convergent outcome were shaped by one commodity: coffee.