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433 sidor |
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Hardback |
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Coffee is an indispensible part of daily life for billions of people around the world. It is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the leading source of the world's most popular drug. The very word 'coffee' is one of the most widespread on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's COFFEELAND tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee's four-hundred-year transformation from a mysterious Ottoman custom to an everyday necessity. The story is one that few coffee drinkers know, even those working in the industry. It centres on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, founded one of the world's great coffee dynasties in the late nineteenth century. Adapting the innovations of the industrial revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped to turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history, a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence. The book follows coffee from the Hill family plantations through international markets and into the United States, through the San Francisco roasting plants and vacuum-sealed cans of the major coffee brands, into supermarkets, kitchens, and work places, and finally into today's omnipresent cafes. Augustine Sedgewick shows how a form of global capitalism both connected and divided people, between those who worked with coffee and those who actually drank it, marking a line between the world's rich and poor. 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. This had consequences that resulted both in the reshaping of large areas of the tropics and in the ubiquity of a drug served in a cup |
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Kaffeodling
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Kaffeplantager
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El Salvador
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| Classmark |
338.4766393097
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Pmbaa
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9780241426227 |
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