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Uncommon grounds : the history of coffee and how it transformed our world / Mark Pendergrast.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xix, 458 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0465054676
  • 9780465054671
  • 0465036317
  • 9780465036318
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 641.3373 21
LOC classification:
  • TX415 .P45 1999
Contents:
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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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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