Uncommon grounds : the history of coffee and how it transformed our world / Mark Pendergrast.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xix, 458 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0465054676
- 9780465054671
- 0465036317
- 9780465036318
- 641.3373 21
- TX415 .P45 1999
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 641.3373 PEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A321907B |
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue: The Oriflama Harvest -- Introduction: Puddle Water or Panacea? -- Pt. 1. Seeds of Conquest -- 1. Coffee Colonizes the World -- 2. The Coffee Kingdoms -- 3. The American Drink -- 4. The Great Coffee Wars of the Gilded Age -- 5. Hermann Sielcken and Brazilian Valorization -- 6. The Drug Drink -- Pt. 2. Canning the Buzz -- 7. Growing Pains -- 8. Making the World Safe for Coffee -- 9. Selling an Image in the Jazz Age -- 10. Burning Beans, Starving Campesinos -- 11. Showboating the Depression -- 12. Cuppa Joe -- Pt. 3. Bitter Brews -- 13. Coffee Witch Hunts and Instant Nongratification -- 14. Robusta Triumphant -- Pt. 4. Romancing the Bean -- 15. A Scattered Band of Fanatics -- 16. The Black Frost -- 17. The Specialty Revolution -- 18. The Starbucks Experience -- 19. Final Grounds -- App. How to Brew the Perfect Cup -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Interviews -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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