The global coffee economy in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 1500-1989 (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The integration of the world coffee market / Steven Topik -- Coffee in the Red Sea area from the 16th to the 19th century / Michel Tuchscherer -- The origins and development of coffee production in Réunion and Madagascar, 1711-1960 / Gwyn Campbell -- The coffee crisis in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, 1870-1914 / William Gervase Clarence-Smith -- The historical construction of quality and competitiveness: a preliminary discussion of coffee commodity chains / Mario Samper K. -- Coffee cultivation in Java, 1830-1907 / M.R. Fernando -- Labor, race and gender on the coffee plantations in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 1834-1880 / Rachel Kurien -- Coffee and indigenous labor in Guatemala, 1871-1980 / David McCreery -- Patriarchy from above, patriarchy from below, debt peonage on Nicaraguan coffee estates, 1870-1930 / Elizabeth Dore -- Small farmers and coffee in Nicaragua / Julie Charlip -- Coffee and recolonization of Highland Chiapas, Mexico: Indian communities and plantation labor, 1892-1912 / Jan Rus -- Comparing coffee production in Cameroon and Tanzania, c. 1900 to 1960s: land, labor and politics / Andreas Eckert -- Smaller is better: a consensus of peasants and bureaucrats in colonial Tanganyika / Kenneth Curtis -- On paths not taken: commercial capital and coffee production in Costa Rica / Lowell Gudmundson / Coffee and development of the Rio de Janeiro economy: 1888-1920 / Hildete Pereira de Melo -- Conclusion: New Propositions and a Research Agenda / Steven Topik and William Gervase Clarence-Smith -- Appendix: Historical statistics of coffee production and trade from 1700 to 1960 / Mario Samper and Radin Fernando
For five hundred years coffee has been grown in tropical countries for consumption in temperate regions. This volume brings together scholars from nine countries who study coffee markets and societies, with a special emphasis on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries