Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America | Robert G. Williams

273 pp., 6.125 x 9.25

Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4154-9
Published: May 1986
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-1588-2
Published: February 2014
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-8626-2
Published: February 2014

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Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas. Williams shows how the rapid growth contributed to the present social and political crisis, examines the causes of the export boom and who benefited from it, and shows the impact of the boom on land use, the ecology, and the conditions of life in the rural areas.

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Robert G. Williams, Voehringer Professor of Economics at Guilford College, is author of Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America.
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"The strength of this work lies in its ability to show the variability of social, labor, and land tenure patterns with coffee, not just between but within each of the Central American nations. . . . A highly effective presentation of what we currently know about coffee, society, and politics in Central America."--Lowell Gudmundson, Mount Holyoke College

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