Title: States and social evolution : coffee and the rise of national governments in Central America /
Authors: Williams, Robert G. 1948-
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Coffee industry Central America History; Central America Politics and government
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Coffee Boom and the World Capitalist System -- 3. Land and the Coffee Boom -- 4. Labor and the Coffee Boom -- 5. Capital, Commerce, and the Coffee Elite -- 6. Coffee, Class, and the Creation of National States -- 7. States and Social Evolution: Lessons from the Nineteenth Century -- 8. Reflections on the Twentieth Century in the Light of the Nineteenth.