Table of Contents

List of tables; List of figures; List of maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The Colombian export economy in the second half of the nineteenth century; 2. The making of an oligarchy; 3. Land and society in central Colombia in the second half of the nineteenth century; 4. The internal structure of the coffee haciendas, 1870–1930; 5. Living conditions and internal contradictions in the hacienda structure; 6. Inflation, devaluation, and export taxes, 1870–1904; 7. Crisis and transition towards the second cycle of expansion, 1903–10; 8. Private appropriation of public lands in the west; 9. Sociopolitical elements of antiogueño colonization; 10. Coffee expansion and the strengthening of the Liberal model of development, 1910–50; 11. The international cycle and coffee policies confronting the peasant, 1930–70; Appendices; Weights and measures; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

This is the first English-language history of Colombia as a coffee-producer.