Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

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• Augustine Sedgewick

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• Historisches Thema
• Politikwissenschaft
• Sachbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften
• Wirtschaft & Management

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Coffee is essential for billions globally, serving as a major commodity and the leading source of the world's most popular drug. Augustine Sedgewick's narrative explores coffee's five-hundred-year evolution from a mysterious Muslim ritual to an everyday necessity, a story largely unknown to coffee drinkers. The focus is on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in Manchester's slums, established a significant coffee dynasty in the early twentieth century. By integrating Industrial Revolution innovations into plantation agriculture, Hill transformed El Salvador into a model of intensive monoculture, characterized by remarkable productivity, inequality, and violence. Sedgewick traces coffee's journey from Hill's plantations to American supermarkets, kitchens, and cafes, highlighting how it generated immense wealth alongside severe poverty, connecting and dividing the modern world. Both El Salvador and the United States have been dubbed "Coffeeland" for different reasons, with lasting implications. This compelling history of coffee offers fresh insights into globalization, prompting a reevaluation of our connections to distant people and places through everyday items that shape our lives.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Einband: Hardcover