Coffee A Dark History

Name: Coffee A Dark History
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ISBN: 9780393060713

ISBN-10: 0393060713

ISBN-13: 9780393060713

Edition: 2005

Authors: Antony Wild

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COFFEE TRADER and historian Antony Wild delivers a rollicking history of the most valuable legally traded commodity in the world after oil--and an industry that employs one hundred 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 forged, secret societies formed, and politics and art endlessly debated. Today, while…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Antony Wild, although a native of Yorkshire, has spent much time in the Indian sub-continent, where he acquired a particular passion for Moghul cookery. He is the figure behind the revival of the East India Company and author of ‘The East India Tea Company Book of Tea’ and ‘The East India Company Book of Spices’



Preface


Prologue



The Way We Live Now



Origins



Enter the Dragon



The Mocha Trade



Coffee and Societies



The Fall of Mocha



Slavery and the Coffee Colonies



The Continental System and Napoleon's Alternative to Coffee



Napoleon and St Helena



Slavery, Brazil, and Coffee



The Great Exhibition



Harar and Rimbaud: the Cradle and the Crucible



Modern Times



Coffee, Science, and History



The Battle of the Hemispheres



Fair Trade



Espresso: the Esperanto of Coffee



The Heart of Darkness


Coda



The Find at Kush


Selected Further Reading


Index