Author: Jeffery M. Paige

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780674136496

In the revolutionary years between 1979 and 1992, it would have been difficult to find three political systems as different as El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, yet they found a common destination in democracy and free markets. Paige shows that the divergent political histories and the convergent outcome were shaped by one commodity: coffee.