"In Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers Sven Van Melkebeke compares the divergent development of coffee production in the Eastern Congo and Western Rwanda during the colonial period. The Lake Kivu region offers a remarkable case-study to investigate diversity in economic development. In Rwanda, on the...

Combining an analysis of political economy and ecocultural heritage, this book examines post-Soviet Latvia and post-apartheid South Africa in an unusual comparative study of post-authoritarian efforts to decolonize production and trade.

"From plantation to cup" : coffee and capitalism in the United States, 1830-1930 / Michael F. Jim(c)♭nez -- The labors of coffee in Latin America : the hidden charm of family labor and self-provisioning / Verena Stolcke -- Coffee and the rise of commercial agriculture in Puerto Rico's...