Robert W. Thurston is professor emeritus of history at Miami University. Jonathan Morris is research professor of modern European history at the University of Hertfordshire. Shawn Steiman is owner of Coffea Consulting, Honolulu, Hawai'i.

Introduction
Robert W. Thurston
Part I: The Coffee Business
1 Strategies for Improving Coffee Quality
Price Peterson
2 The Coffee Plant and How It Is Handled
Shawn Steiman
3 Digging Deeper: Cultivation and Yields
H. C. "Skip" Bittenbender
4 Coffee as a Global System
Peter S. Baker
5 What Does "Organic" Mean?
Robert W. Thurston
6 Coffee under Threat: The Growing Problem of the Coffee Berry Borer
Juliana Jaramillo
7 Culture, Agriculture, and Nature: Shade Coffee Farms and Biodiversity
Robert Rice
8 A Guatemalan Coffee Farmer's Story: A Challenging Life in a Beautiful, Harsh Land
Carlos Saenz
9 Pickers
Robert W. Thurston
10 Coffee Processing: An Artisan's Perspective
Joan Obra
11 Women in Coffee in Colombia
Olga Cuellar
12 How a Country Girl from Arkansas Became an Importer Leading Other Women in Coffee
Phyllis Johnson
13 The Role of Nonprofits in Coffee
August Burns
14 Hunger in the Coffee Lands
Rick Peyser
15 The "Price" of Coffee: How the Coffee Commodity Market Works
Robert W. Thurston
16 Appreciating Quality: The Route to Upward Mobility for Coffee Farmers
George Howell
17 What is Specialty Coffee?
Shawn Steiman
18 Where Does the Money Go in the Coffee Supply Chain?
Robert W. Thurston
Part II: The State of the Trade
19 The Global Trade in Coffee: An Overview
Robert W. Thurston
20 Coffee Certification Programs
Robert W. Thurston
21 Direct Trade in Coffee
Geoff Watts
22 Fair Trade: Still a Big Plus for Farmers and Workers around the World
Paul Rice
Producer Country Profiles
23 Hawaii
Shawn Steiman
24 India
Sunalini Menon
25 Indonesia
Jinap Selamat
26 Colombia
Luis Alberto Cuéllar
27 Ethiopia
Willem Boot
28 Vietnam
Robert W. Thurston
29 Brazil
Carlos H. J. Brando
30 Supporting Coffee Farmers' Response to Market Changes
Jeremy Haggar
Consumer Country Profiles
31 Introduction to Consumer Countries
Jonathan Morris
32 Denmark
Camilla C. Val[...] France
Jonathan Wesley Bell
34 Italy
Vincenzo Sandalj
35 United Kingdom
Clare Benfield
36 Russia
Robert W. Thurston
37 Ukraine
Sergii Reminny with Jonathan Morris
38 Japan
Tatsushi Ueshima
39 Germany
Britta Zeitemann
40 United States
Robert W. Thurston
Part III: The History of Coffee and Its Social Life
41 Coffee, a Condensed History
Jonathan Morris with material from Robert W. Thurston
42 Coffee House Formats through the Centuries: Third Places or Public Spaces?
Jonathan Morris
43 Why Americans Drink Coffee: The Boston Tea Party or Brazilian Slavery?
Steven Topik and Michelle Craig McDonald
44 The Ecology of Taste: Robusta Coffee and the Limits of the Specialty Revolution
Stuart McCook
45 The Espresso Menu: A History
Jonathan Morris
46 The Competing Languages of Coffee: Signs, Narratives, and Symbols of American Specialty Coffee
Kenneth Davids
Part IV: The Qualities of Coffee
47 Coffee Quality
Geoff Watts
48 Why Does Coffee Taste That Way? Notes from the Field
Shawn Steiman
49 Coffee Quality and Assessment
Shawn Steiman
50 Distinctive Drinking: Specialty Coffee and Class in the United States
Jonathan D. Baker
51 Brewing: Dissolving the Puzzle
Andrew Hetzel
52 Roasting: Developing Flavor in the Bean
Colin Smith
53 Roasting Culture
Connie Blumhardt and Jim Fadden
54 Barista Culture
Sarah Allen
55 Brewing Culture
Alf Kramer
Coffee and Health
56 The Long Debate over Coffee and Health
Robert W. Thurston
57 Caffeine: How Much Is in Your Cup, and How Much Is Bad for You?
Robert W. Thurston
58 Recent Research on Coffee and Health
Lawrence W. Jones
Part V: The Future of Coffee
59 Coffee Research in Kenya: Current Status and Future Perspectives
Elijah K. Gichuru
60 Genetically Modified (Transgenic) Coffee
Robert W. Thurston
61 Mechanization
Robert W. Thurston
62 A Life in Coffee
Ted Lingle
63 How to Make a Great Cup of Coffee
Robert W. Thurston with Shawn Steiman and Jonathan Morris
Glossary