A Coffee Frontier

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A Coffee Frontier is written by Douglas K. Yarrington and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0822974940 (ISBN 10) and 9780822974949 (ISBN 13).

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.