The Reconstruction of the Coffee Landscape of Coatepec Through Historical Sources

Abstract

This article partially addresses the methodology utilized in the doctoral dissertation La configuración del paisaje cafetalero a partir de los procesos industriales de fines del siglo XIX, which analyzes and contrasts contemporary cartographic, graphic and poetic sources to reconstruct a historical landscape that has not stopped evolving, but that nevertheless contains a countless number of redouts. The material in question provides both quantitative data and subjective qualities that allow us to come close to an understanding as to how the landscape in the area of Coatepec, Veracruz was perceived in the past, particularly during the coffee boom, which was the consequence of a series of processes triggered by industrialization and the many abrupt changes that occurred in the last three decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth.