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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Pendergrast |
ISBN: | 9781541699380 1541699386 |
OCLC Number: | 1105931208 |
Description: | xxvii, 424 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Prologue: Oriflama harvest -- Introduction: Puddle water or panacea? -- Introduction to the second edition -- Part 1: Seeds Of Conquest -- 1: Coffee colonizes the world -- 2: Coffee kingdoms -- 3: American drink -- 4: Great coffee wars of the Gilded Age -- 5: Hermann Sielcken and Brazilian valorization -- 6: Drug drink -- Part 2: Canning The Buzz -- 7: Growing pains -- 8: Making the world safe for coffee -- 9: Selling an image in the Jazz Age -- 10: Burning beans, starving campesinos -- 11: Showboating the Depression -- 12: Cuppa joe -- Part 3: Bitter Brews -- 13: Coffee witch hunts and instant nongratification -- 14: Robusta triumphant -- Part 4: Romancing The Bean -- 15: Scattered band of fanatics -- 16: Black frost -- 17: Specialty revolution -- 18: Starbucks experience -- 19: Final grounds. |
Responsibility: | Mark Pendergrast. |
Abstract:
The definitive history of coffee, with a new introduction by the author.
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