The national governments of Central America were constructed
between 1840 and 1900, a time when coffee was transformed from a
botanical curiosity to the region's most important export. In spite
of their geographic proximity, the national governments that
emerged were strikingly different, from Costa Rica's participatory
democracy to Guatemala's military despotism.
Robert Williams explores Central America's political diversity
by following the story of coffee through the nation-building
period. With a sensitivity to cultures and institutions before the
advent of widespread coffee cultivation, he reveals the various
ways that land, labor, and capital were harnessed as coffee
advanced from one locale to the next, provoking cultural clashes
and sometimes violent reactions as it altered landscapes, people's
lives, and even governments. Through careful scrutiny of a tiny
region and a single crop in a restless age, "States and Social
Evolution" develops a theory of state formation relevant to other
places and times as well.
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