Part I. Introduction: Coffee and Global Development Steven Topik and William Gervase Clarence-Smith

Part II. Origins of the World Coffee Economy: 1. The integration of the world coffee market Steven Topik

2. Coffee in the Red Sea area from the 16th to the 19th century Michel Tuchscherer

3. The origins and development of coffee production in Ré

union and Madagascar, 1711-1960 Gwyn Campbell

4. The coffee crisis in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, 1870-1914 William Gervase Clarence-Smith

5. The historical construction of quality and competitiveness: a preliminary discussion of coffee commodity chains Mario Samper K.

Part III. Peasants: Race, Gender, and Property: 6. Coffee cultivation in Java, 1830-1907 M. R. Fernando

7. Labor, race and gender on the coffee plantations in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 1834-1880 Rachel Kurien

8. Coffee and indigenous labor in Guatemala, 1871-1980 David McCreery

9. Patriarchy from above, patriarchy from below, debt peonage on Nicaraguan coffee estates, 1870-1930 Elizabeth Dore

10. Small farmers and coffee in Nicaragua Julie Charlip

Part IV. Coffee, Politics, and State Building: 11. Coffee and recolonization of Highland Chiapas, Mexico: Indian communities and plantation labor, 1892-1912 Jan Rus

12. Comparing coffee production in Cameroon and Tanzania, c.1900 to 1960s: land, labor and politics Andreas Eckert

13. Smaller is better: a consensus of peasants and bureaucrats in colonial Tanganyika Kenneth Curtis

14. On paths not taken: commercial capital and coffee production in Costa Rica Lowell Gudmundson

15. Coffee and development of the Rio de Janeiro economy: 1888-1920 Hildete Pereira de Melo

Part V. Conclusion: New Propositions and a Research Agenda Steven Topik and William Gervase Clarence-Smith.