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The Economics of Central America

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COFFEE AND PEASANTS IN GUATEMALA. By CAMBRANESJULIO C. (Stockholm: Institute of Latin American Studies, 1985. Pp. 334.)

COSTA RICA BEFORE COFFEE. By GUDMUNDSONLOWELL. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Pp. 204. $30.00.)

LAS TRANSNACIONALES DEL BANANO EN CENTROAMERICA. By ELLISFRANK. (San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana, 1983. Pp. 463.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Victor Bulmer-Thomas*
Affiliation:
Queen Mary College, London University
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Copyright © 1988 by Latin American Research Review

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1. I have developed these points at greater length elsewhere. See Victor Bulmer-Thomas, The Political Economy of Central America since 1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), chap. 12.

2. See Mitchell A. Seligson, Peasants of Costa Rica and the Development of Agrarian Capitalism (Madison: University or Wisconsin Press, 1980).

3. See, for example, the dispute about coffee in Puerto Rico between Laird Bergad and Tom Brass in recent issues of the Journal of Latin American Studies 15, pt. 1; 16, pt. 1; and 18, pt. 1.

4. See Economic Integration in Central America, edited by William R. Cline and Enrique Delgado (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institute, 1978).

5. See Carolyn Hall, El café y el desarrollo histórico-geográfico de Costa Rica (San José: Editorial Costa Rica, 1976).