| Description |
xix, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue: The Oriflama harvest -- Introduction: Puddle water or panacea? -- PART ONE: SEEDS OF CONQUEST: Coffee colonizes the world -- The coffee kingdoms -- The American drink -- The great coffee wars of the Gilded Age -- Hermann Sielcken and Brazilian valorization -- The drug drink -- PART TWO: CANNING THE BUZZ: Growing pains -- Making the world safe for coffee -- Selling an image in the jazz age -- Burning beans, starving campesinos -- Showboating the depression -- Cuppa Joe -- PART THREE: BITTER BREWS: Coffee witch hunts and instant nongratification -- Robusta triumphant -- PART FOUR: ROMANCING THE BEAN: A scattered band of fanatics -- The black frost -- The specialty revolution -- The Starbucks revolution -- Final grounds -- Appendix: How to brew the perfect cup |
| Summary |
Traces the use and popularity of coffee from ancient Ethiopia to the present, describing the effect of the coffee trade and industry on economic, political, and social history |
| Notes |
Illustrations on endpapers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Coffee industry -- History.
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Coffee -- History.
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| LC no. |
2002319013 |
| ISBN |
0465036317 |
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