A Coffee Frontier

Land, Society, and Politics in Duaca, Venezuela, 1830–1936

Douglas K. Yarrington, Doug Yarrington

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 2010
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780822974949
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

This study views the economic transformation of Duaca, Venezuela into a major coffee export center in the late nineteenth-century. Yarrington examines the rise of the peasantry to prosperity, yet they later lost their stature as the local elite allied itself with the state to restructure society and coffee production on its own terms in the twentieth-century. The book is a pioneering study on peasant studies, export-led development, the relationship of state and society, and the consolidation of nation-states in Latin America.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Early History of Duaca: From the Spanish Conquest to the Origins of Coffee Production, 1620–1863
• 3. The Coffee Boom and Peasant Society, 1863–1899
• 4. Commerce and the Local Elite, 1863–1899
• 5. Rebellion and Accommodation: Duaca's Elite and the National State
• 6. The Struggle for Land on Two Duaca Estates, 1909–1921
• 7. The Transformation of Duaqueno Society
• 8. Economic and Political Change in Duaca During the Depression
• 9. The Peasant Protests of 1936
• 10. Coffee and Social Transformation in Latin America
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index