Coffee in Colombia, 1850-1970: An Economic, Social and Political History

Marco Palacios

Cambridge University Press, Jul 25, 2002 - Business & Economics - 360 pages

In this book, Marco Palacios explores the history of Colombia as a coffee-producer, and the implications that coffee has had for its economy, society, and politics since the middle of the nineteenth century. He provides a history of the commercialization of the crop, and relates it to the general evolution of Colombian society, an evolution often determined by coffee even in areas remote from the crop itself. The book also covers the development of the specific institutions that have been set up to manage coffee affairs, and their role in the Colombian state. Since the last quarter of the nineteenth century coffee has been the mainstay of the Colombian economy, and no historian, economist, or sociologist interested in the country can escape its importance; nor can anyone interested in the commodity ignore Colombia. This is the first work on the subject to appear in English.

Contents

• area under cultivation and work force 184075: 1
• Colombian coffee exports 18531909: 19
• Export estimates for Santander Cundinamarca and Antioquia: 21
• The making of an oligarchy: 25
• Price per hectare of uncultivated land in four municipalities of the coffee zones 186591: 37
• Commercial companies investing in haciendas: 39
• Hacienda Santa Bárbara account profitability 18891900: 45
• trends in account profitability 18891900: 46
• production costs and prices of coffee 489: 48
• Sample of hacendado debtors in Cundinamarca 19057: 52
• Land and society in central Colombia in the second: 55
• Censos redeemed in La Mesa 1864: 59
• population census 1859: 61
• Population and principal economic activities of the regions of Cundinamarca 1870 623: 62
• Survey of cattle latifundia in Cundinamarca 1876: 64
• The fragmentation of colonial latifundia and the origins and collapse of the coffee haciendas: 66
• Population and percentage variation of the population of six typical coffee municipalities 18591912: 71
• The internal structure of the coffee haciendas: 77
• regional systems: 79
• Living conditions and internal contradictions: 100
• employment wages and trends in the family money income of the agregados 18961918: 107
• money wages and panela prices 18961900: 109
• Nutritional content of the jornaleros diet 18961934: 111
• Inflation devaluation and export taxes 18701904: 121
• Indices of costs of production exchange rate and international price of coffee 187999 13031: 130
• Colombian and Brazilian coffee exports 18801910: 132
• Taxes on coffee exports 18951906: 133
• Crisis and transition towards the second cycle: 141
• Private appropriation of public lands in the west: 161
• Sociopolitical elements in antioqueño colonization: 180
• Coffee expansion and the strengthening of the Liberal: 198
• The international cycle and coffee policies confronting: 227
• Sample of coffee estates in Cundinamarca: 259
• Weights and measures: 265
• Bibliography: 314
• Index: 331

Bibliographic information

• Title: Coffee in Colombia, 1850-1970: An Economic, Social and Political History; Issue 36 of Cambridge Latin American Studies
• Author: Marco Palacios
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0521528593, 9780521528597
• Length: 360 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Industries / General; History / Latin America / General