Bibliograph

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

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

1143829718

Responsibility statement

by Augustine Sedgewick

Sub title

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

Summary

"Augustine Sedgewick's Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee's five-hundred-year transformation from a mysterious Muslim ritual into an everyday necessity. This story is one that few coffee drinkers know. It centers on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, England, founded one of the world's great coffee dynasties at the turn of the twentieth 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. Following coffee from Hill family plantations into supermarkets, kitchens, and workplaces across the United States, and finally into today's ubiquitous cafés, Sedgewick reveals how coffee bred vast wealth and hard poverty, at once connecting and dividing the modern world."--, Provided by publisher

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