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Coffee: A Dark History

Door Antony Wild

Categorie	Kookboeken
Boeknummer	#243023
Titel	Coffee: A Dark History
Auteur	Wild, Antony
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York/London, W.W. Norton & Company
Jaar van uitgave	2005
ISBN10	0393060713
ISBN13	9780393060713
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	COFFEE TRADER and historian Antony Wild delivers a rollicking history of the most valuable legally traded commodity in the world after oil--and an industry that employs one hundred million people throughout the world. From obscure beginnings in East Africa in the fifteenth century as a stimulant in religious devotion, coffee became an imperial commodity, produced by poor tropical countries and consumed by rich temperate ones. Through the centuries, the influence of coffee on the rise of capitalism and its institutions has been enormous. Revolutions were once hatched in coffeehouses, commercial alliances forged, secret societies formed, and politics and art endlessly debated. Today, while coffee chains spread like wildfire, coffee-producing countries are in crisis: with prices at a historic... (Lees verder) low, they are plagued by unprecedented unemployment, abandoned farms, enforced migration, and massive social disruption. Bridging the gap between coffee's dismal colonial past and its perilous corporate present, Coffee reveals the shocking exploitation that has always lurked at the heart of the industry. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A European coffee trader traces the history of a leading global trade commodity. His bitter perspective encompasses coffee's role in the slave trade, revolutions, Napoleon's exile, the Starbucks phenomenon, and current global economics including the fair trade movement. An illustration shows coffee disrupting spiders' web- weaving more than marijuana. Given his occupation, it's surprising that Wild ignores research on coffee's positive health effects.
Pagina's	323
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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