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"Through exhaustive historical research and enterprising interviews, Mr. Paige penetrates the worlds of the most powerful families of El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. He highlights a critical division within the coffee elite: the coffee growers, a landed aristocracy that has been the bulwark of conservative authoritarianism; and the coffee processors, a manufacturing class that has become a modernizing force."Paige, Jeffery M. is the author of 'Coffee and Power Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America', published 1998 under ISBN 9780674136496 and ISBN 0674136497.
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