In January 1927 Gus Comstock, a barbershop porter in the small
Minnesota town of Fergus Falls, drank eighty cups of coffee in
seven hours and fifteen minutes. The "New York Times" reported that
near the end, amid a cheering crowd, the man's "gulps were labored,
but a physician examining him found him in pretty good shape." The
event was part of a marathon coffee-drinking spree set off two
years earlier by news from the Commerce Department that coffee
imports to the United States amounted to five hundred cups per year
"per person."
In "Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America, " a
distinguished international group of historians, anthropologists,
and sociologists examine the production, processing, and marketing
of this important commodity. Using coffee as a common denominator
and focusing on landholding patterns, labor mobilization, class
structure, political power, and political ideologies, the authors
examine how Latin American countries of the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries responded to the growing global demand
for coffee.
This unique volume offers an integrated comparative study of
class formation in the coffee zones of Latin America as they were
incorporated into the world economy. It offers a new theoretical
and methodological approach to comparative historical analysis and
will serve as a critique and counter to those who stress the
homogenizing tendencies of export agriculture. The book will be of
interest not only to experts on coffee economies but also to
students and scholars of Latin America, labor history, the
economics ofdevelopment, and political economy.
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