Bibliograph

Coffeeland, one man's dark empire and the making of our favorite drug, Augustine Sedgewick

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Coffeeland, one man's dark empire and the making of our favorite drug, Augustine Sedgewick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Coffeeland

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1108141223

Responsibility statement

Augustine Sedgewick

Sub title

one man's dark empire and the making of our favorite drug

Summary

"The epic story of the rise of coffee in the Americas, and how it connected and divided the modern world. Sedgewick reveals how the growth of coffee production, trade, and consumption went hand in hand with the rise of the scientific idea of energy as a universal force, which transformed thinking about how the human body works as well as ideas about the relationship of one person's work to another's. In the process, both El Salvador and the United States earned the nickname "Coffeeland," though for radically different reasons, and with consequences that reach into the present. This history of how coffee came to be produced by the world's poorest people and consumed by its richest opens up a unique perspective on how the modern globalized world works, ultimately provoking a reconsideration of what it means to be connected to far-away people and places through the familiar things that make up our everyday lives"--, Provided by publisher

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