TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allen,Stewart Lee
TI  - The devil's cup: a history of the world according to coffee 
SN  - 0345441494
AV  - TX415 .A454 2003
U1  - 641.337309 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Ballantine Books
KW  - Coffee
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Introduction The First Cup.--; A Season in Hell.--; Ethiopian Prayer.--; Sailing to al-Makkha.--; An Evil Sister.--; Java.--; Monkey Droppings.--; Mother Calcutta.--; The Man in the Red Hat.--; War.--; The Revolution.--; Paris.--; The Sultan's Earache.--; At Sea.--; Africa in Chains.--; Preto Velho.--; Officer Hoppe.--White-Trash Cocaine
N2  - A wild ride through the history of coffee offers a humorous revisionist take on world events with this magic bean as the prime mover of everything from Napoleon's downfall to the prosperity of America; This comprehensive work provides an account of caffeine's impact on humankind. Beginning in Ethiopia, the author sails along the same route that carried the first beans to Yemen 1500 years ago, and literally travels the world in his mission to prove that coffee is the driving force in history
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