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Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930 (Research in International Studies Series)

Author: Julie A Charlip

Many scholars of Latin America have argued that the introduction of coffee forced most people to become landless proletarians toiling on large plantations. Cultivating Coffee tells a different story: small and medium-sized growers were a vital part of the Nicaraguan economy, constituting the majority of the farmers and holding most of the land. Alongside these small commercial farmers was a group of subsistence farmers, created by the state's commitment to supplying municipal lands to communities. These subsistence growers became the workforce for their coffee-growing neighbors, providing harvest labor three months a year. Mostly illiterate, perhaps largely indigenous, they learned to work within the new political and economic systems and used them to acquire individual plots of land. Julie Charlip's Cultivating Coffee joins the growing scholarship on rural Latin America that demonstrates the complexity of the processes of transition to expanded export agriculture and sheds new light on the controversy surrounding landholding in Nicaragua during the Sandinista revolution.

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	Setting the Stage	16
3	Public Land for Private Use	38
4	The Land Market	66
5	Cultivating Coffee	87
6	Capital Concerns	122
7	Lamenting about Labor	146
8	Social Structures	170
9	Politics and Public Works	192
10	Conclusions	216
	Notes	229
	Bibliography	269
	Index	283

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The Silbers tell us how to go about searching for just the right seeds, plants, and information; how to determine the number of plants we need; how to set up a germinating area; how to seed and transplant; how to use cold frames and other methods of "hardening off" our seedlings. They take us into the garden and explain how to evaluate soils and break up top growth. We learn about setting out plants; about direct seeding in mulched areas and open ground; about weeding, watering, and fertilizing. They share their wisdom about controlling insect damage and battling plant diseases; about accommodating animals while protecting crops; about harvesting, fall cleanup, and collecting, saving, and storing seeds from our own gardens.

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