| Coffee: A Dark History Contributor(s): Wild, Antony (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393337391 ISBN-13: 9780393337396 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: June 2005 Annotation: Wild, a coffee trader and historian delivers a rollicking history of the most valuable legally traded commodity in the world after oil, and an industry that employs 100 million people throughout the world. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | Beverages - Coffee & Tea - Cooking | History - Business & Economics | Industries - Food Industry |
| Dewey: 641.337 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.15 lbs) 344 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Coffee trader and historian Antony Wild delivers a rollicking history of the most valuable legally traded commodity in the world after oil--an industry that employs 100 million people throughout the world. 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. Bridging the gap between coffee's dismal colonial past and its perilous corporate present, Coffee reveals the shocking exploitation that has always lurked at the heart of the industry. |
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