Coffee: A Dark History

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W. W. Norton & Company, 2005 - 323 страници
Wild, a coffee trader and historian delivers a rollicking history of the most valuable legally traded commodity in the world after oil, and an industry that employs 100 million people throughout the world.

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The Way We Live Now
1
Origins
17
Enter the Dragon
34
The Mocha Trade
65
Coffee and Societies
84
The Fall of Mocha
98
Slavery and the Coffee Colonies
118
The Continental System and Napoleons Alternative to Coffee
141
Modern Times
192
Coffee Science and History
212
The Battle of the Hemispheres
226
Fair Trade
257
Espresso the Esperanto of Coffee
271
The Heart of Darkness
285
Coda
299
Appendix The Find at Kush
307

Napoleon and St Helena
149
Slavery Brazil and Coffee
170
The Great Exhibition
176
Harar and Rimbaud the Cradle and the Crucible
183
Selected Further Reading
309
Index
313
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