Edward F. Fischer is Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, where he also directs the Institute for Coffee Studies. He has authored and edited several books, most recently The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing.

"Fischer's insightful new book. . . .illustrates in great detail…how rarely that increased value benefits Maya farmers directly."

• ContentsIntroduction1. Creating Third Wave Values2. Plant Biology, Capitalist Trade, and the Colonial Histories of Coffea arabica3. German Oligarchs, First Wave Coffee, and Guatemala’s Enduring Structures of Inequality4. Austrian Economics and the Quality Turn in Guatemala Coffee5. Maya Farmers and Second Wave Coffee6. Cooperation, Competition, and Cultural Capital in Third Wave MarketsConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyImage CreditsIndex

Edward F. Fischer is Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, where he also directs the Institute for Coffee Studies. He has authored and edited several books, most recently The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing.

"Fischer's insightful new book. . . .illustrates in great detail…how rarely that increased value benefits Maya farmers directly."

• ContentsIntroduction1. Creating Third Wave Values2. Plant Biology, Capitalist Trade, and the Colonial Histories of Coffea arabica3. German Oligarchs, First Wave Coffee, and Guatemala’s Enduring Structures of Inequality4. Austrian Economics and the Quality Turn in Guatemala Coffee5. Maya Farmers and Second Wave Coffee6. Cooperation, Competition, and Cultural Capital in Third Wave MarketsConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyImage CreditsIndex

Edward F. Fischer is Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, where he also directs the Institute for Coffee Studies. He has authored and edited several books, most recently The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing.

"Fischer's insightful new book. . . .illustrates in great detail…how rarely that increased value benefits Maya farmers directly."

• ContentsIntroduction1. Creating Third Wave Values2. Plant Biology, Capitalist Trade, and the Colonial Histories of Coffea arabica3. German Oligarchs, First Wave Coffee, and Guatemala’s Enduring Structures of Inequality4. Austrian Economics and the Quality Turn in Guatemala Coffee5. Maya Farmers and Second Wave Coffee6. Cooperation, Competition, and Cultural Capital in Third Wave MarketsConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyImage CreditsIndex