Author: Gudmundson, Lowell
Title: Costa Rica Before Coffee. Society and Economy on the Eve of the Export Boom
Description: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Univ. Press, (1986). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xvi, 204 pp. Textual graphs & tables. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction: Precoffee Costa Rica and the Rural Democratic Model; Nucleated Settlement, the Village Economy, and the Introduction of Coffee; Wealth, Inequality and Coffee; Women, Family and Household; Population Growth, Migration and Regional Differentiation; Coffee, Smallholding, and the Transition to Capitalist Agriculture; Appendixes; Bibliography.

Keywords: Central America, Costa Rica, Land Tenure, Social Structure, Economic history, Agricultural, Economics, Coffee Plantation, Agriculture