Coffee : a dark history /
Wild, Antony, 1955-
Coffee : a dark history / Antony Wild. - First American edition. - xi, 323 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-310) and index.
The way we live now -- Origins -- Enter the dragon -- The mocha trade -- Coffee and societies -- The fall of mocha -- Slavery and the coffee colonies -- The continental system and Napoleon's alternative to coffee -- Napoleon and St. Helena -- Slavery, Brazil, and coffee -- The great exhibition -- Harar and Rimbaud : the cradle and the crucible -- Modern times -- Coffee, science, and history -- The battle of the hemispheres -- Fair trade -- Espresso : the Esperanto of coffee -- The heart of darkness -- The find at Kush. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. App.
"From obscure beginnings in east Africa in the fifteenth century as a stimulant in religious devotion, coffee became an imperial commodity, produced by poor tropical countries and consumed by rich temperate ones. Through the centuries, the influence of coffee on the rise of capitalism and its institutions has been enormous. Revolutions were once hatched in coffeehouses, commercial alliances were forged, secret societies were formed, and politics and art were endlessly debated. Today, while coffee chains spread like wildfire, coffee-producing countries are in crisis: with prices at a historic low, they are plagued by unprecedented unemployment, abandoned farms, enforced migration, and massive social disruption."--Jacket. "From obscure beginnings in east Africa in the fifteenth century as a stimulant in religious devotion, coffee became an imperial commodity, produced by poor tropical countries and consumed by rich temperate ones. Through the centuries, the influence of coffee on the rise of capitalism and its institutions has been enormous. Revolutions were once hatched in coffeehouses, commercial alliances were forged, secret societies were formed, and politics and art were endlessly debated. Today, while coffee chains spread like wildfire, coffee-producing countries are in crisis: with prices at a historic low, they are plagued by unprecedented unemployment, abandoned farms, enforced migration, and massive social disruption."--BOOK JACKET.
0393060713 9780393060713
2005040668
Coffee.
TX415 / .W5 2005
641.3373
Coffee : a dark history / Antony Wild. - First American edition. - xi, 323 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-310) and index.
The way we live now -- Origins -- Enter the dragon -- The mocha trade -- Coffee and societies -- The fall of mocha -- Slavery and the coffee colonies -- The continental system and Napoleon's alternative to coffee -- Napoleon and St. Helena -- Slavery, Brazil, and coffee -- The great exhibition -- Harar and Rimbaud : the cradle and the crucible -- Modern times -- Coffee, science, and history -- The battle of the hemispheres -- Fair trade -- Espresso : the Esperanto of coffee -- The heart of darkness -- The find at Kush. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. App.
"From obscure beginnings in east Africa in the fifteenth century as a stimulant in religious devotion, coffee became an imperial commodity, produced by poor tropical countries and consumed by rich temperate ones. Through the centuries, the influence of coffee on the rise of capitalism and its institutions has been enormous. Revolutions were once hatched in coffeehouses, commercial alliances were forged, secret societies were formed, and politics and art were endlessly debated. Today, while coffee chains spread like wildfire, coffee-producing countries are in crisis: with prices at a historic low, they are plagued by unprecedented unemployment, abandoned farms, enforced migration, and massive social disruption."--Jacket. "From obscure beginnings in east Africa in the fifteenth century as a stimulant in religious devotion, coffee became an imperial commodity, produced by poor tropical countries and consumed by rich temperate ones. Through the centuries, the influence of coffee on the rise of capitalism and its institutions has been enormous. Revolutions were once hatched in coffeehouses, commercial alliances were forged, secret societies were formed, and politics and art were endlessly debated. Today, while coffee chains spread like wildfire, coffee-producing countries are in crisis: with prices at a historic low, they are plagued by unprecedented unemployment, abandoned farms, enforced migration, and massive social disruption."--BOOK JACKET.
0393060713 9780393060713
2005040668
Coffee.
TX415 / .W5 2005
641.3373