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Coffee and Power

Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America

Jeffery M. Paige

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$37.00 • £29.95 • €33.50

ISBN 9780674136496

Publication Date: 01/13/1998

448 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

2 figures, 11 tables

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Preface
Introduction
I. Social Origins of the Central American Crisis
- 1. Revolution and the Coffee Elite
- 2. Class and Class Relations
II. History and Memory: The Crisis of the 1930s
- 3. Farabundo Martí and the Failure of Revolutionary Socialism
- 4. Manuel Mora and the Rise of Euro-Communism
- 5. Augusto César Sandino and the Failure of Revolutionary Nationalism
III. Narratives of Class: The Crisis of the 1980s
- 6. Agro-Industrialists versus Agrarians in El Salvador
- 7. Democracy and Anti-Communism in Costa Rica
- 8. Neo-Liberalism and Agro-Industry in Costa Rica
- 9. Liberty and the Contra in Nicaragua
IV. Social Transformation and Elite Narrative, 1979–1992
- 10. Democracy and Revolution
- 11. From Liberalism to Neo-Liberalism
Appendix A: Marriages and Descendents of Children of James Hill and Dolores Bernal Nájera
Appendix B: Selection of the Interview Population
Notes
Index

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