Coffee: A Dark History

Coffee: A Dark History
ISBN-10
0393060713
ISBN-13
9780393060713
Series
Coffee
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
323
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
Antony Wild

Description

A five-hundred-year history of coffee draws on sources in alchemy, anthropology, politics, and other disciplines to document coffee's identity as one of the most valuable legally traded commodities in the world, tracing its origins in fifteenth-century East Africa, its rise as an imperial consumer product, its role in commercialism and social disruption, and more. 15,000 first printing.

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