Coffee in Colombia, 1850-1970: An Economic, Social and Political HistoryIn 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. |
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Contents
The making of an oligarchy | 33 |
Land and society in central Colombia in the second | 55 |
and collapse of the coffee haciendas | 66 |
The internal structure of the coffee haciendas | 77 |
Living conditions and internal contradictions | 100 |
Inflation devaluation and export taxes 18701904 | 121 |
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 |
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2nd edn agrarian agregados agricultural antioqueño colonization Antioquia Archivo areas arrendatarios average baldios Banco Banco de Bogotá banks Bogotá Boyacá Café Cafetera Calarcã Caldas Camacho capital Cauca cent centres century coffee cultivation coffee exports coffee haciendas coffee price coffee production coffee zones coffee-growers Colombia Colombian coffee colonists commercial concessions conflicts costs crisis crops Cundinamarca debt economic exchange favourable fincas FNCC Fredonia groups hacendados hacienda harvest hectares Herrera Holguín Ibid important income industry internal market investment Jonás labour latifundia Liberal López Magdalena Magdalena river Manizales Mariano Ospina Pérez Márquez Medellín merchants Mesa municipalities municipios Notaria owners peasant period pesos pesos gold plantations political problems profit public lands Quindío region Sáenz Samper Santa Bárbara Santander Sasaima sector social sugar-cane Sumapaz Tequendama Tibacuy Tolima trade transport Uribe Uribe Viotá wages workers
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| 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 |
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