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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44528830 Title: Uncommon grounds : the history of coffee and how it transformed our world Author: Mark Pendergrast Publisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, ©1999. ISBN/ISSN: 0465036317 9780465036318 OCLC:44528830

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Uncommon grounds : the history of coffee and how it transformed our world

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Uncommon grounds : the history of coffee and how it transformed our world

Author:	Mark Pendergrast
Publisher:	New York, NY : Basic Books, ©1999.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Traces the use and popularity of coffee from ancient Ethiopia to the present, describing the effect of the coffee trade and industry on economic, political, and social history.
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Mark Pendergrast Find more information about:
ISBN:	0465036317 9780465036318
OCLC Number:	44528830
Notes:	Includes map.
Description:	xix, 458 p., 16 p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents:	Prologue: The Oriflama harvest -- Introduction: Puddle water or panacea? -- PART ONE: SEEDS OF CONQUEST: Coffee colonizes the world -- The coffee kingdoms -- The American drink -- The great coffee wars of the Gilded Age -- Hermann Sielcken and Brazilian valorization -- The drug drink -- PART TWO: CANNING THE BUZZ: Growing pains -- Making the world safe for coffee -- Selling an image in the jazz age -- Burning beans, starving campesinos -- Showboating the depression -- Cuppa Joe -- PART THREE: BITTER BREWS: Coffee witch hunts and instant nongratification -- Robusta triumphant -- PART FOUR: ROMANCING THE BEAN: A scattered band of fanatics -- The black frost -- The specialty revolution -- The Starbucks revolution -- Final grounds -- Appendix: How to brew the perfect cup.
Responsibility:	Mark Pendergrast.
More information:	Publisher description

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Traces the use and popularity of coffee from ancient Ethiopia to the present, describing the effect of the coffee trade and industry on economic, political, and social history.

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