Cultivating Coffee
The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930

This study questions the idea that the introduction of coffee to Latin America forced most people to become landless proles working on large plantations. It suggests that small and medium-sized growers in Nicaragua were vital to the economy, constituting the farming and land-owning majority.

It also sheds new light on the controversy surrounding landholding in Nicaragua during the Sandinista revolution.