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Coffeeland
A History
Taschenbuch von Augustine Sedgewick
Sprache: Englisch

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*Winner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize*

'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic


'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian

Coffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the world's most popular drug. The very word 'coffee' is one of the most widespread on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's brilliant new history tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee's 400-year transformation into an everyday necessity.

The story is one that few coffee drinkers know. Coffeeland centres on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of nineteenth-century Manchester, founded one of the world's great coffee dynasties. Adapting the innovations of the industrial revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped to turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history, a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality and violence.

The book follows coffee from the Hill family plantations into the United States, through the San Francisco roasting plants into supermarkets, kitchens and work places, and finally into today's omnipresent cafés. Sedgewick reveals the unexpected consequences of the rise of coffee, which reshaped large areas of the tropics, transformed understandings of energy, and ultimately made us dependent on a drug served in a cup.

'Gripping' The Spectator

'An eye-opening, stimulating brew' The Economist

*Winner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize*

'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic


'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian

Coffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the world's most popular drug. The very word 'coffee' is one of the most widespread on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's brilliant new history tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee's 400-year transformation into an everyday necessity.

The story is one that few coffee drinkers know. Coffeeland centres on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of nineteenth-century Manchester, founded one of the world's great coffee dynasties. Adapting the innovations of the industrial revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped to turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history, a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality and violence.

The book follows coffee from the Hill family plantations into the United States, through the San Francisco roasting plants into supermarkets, kitchens and work places, and finally into today's omnipresent cafés. Sedgewick reveals the unexpected consequences of the rise of coffee, which reshaped large areas of the tropics, transformed understandings of energy, and ultimately made us dependent on a drug served in a cup.

'Gripping' The Spectator

'An eye-opening, stimulating brew' The Economist

Über den Autor
Augustine Sedgewick earned his doctorate at Harvard University and teaches History and American studies at the City University of New York. His research on the global history of work, food, and capitalism has won fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Jackman Humanities Institute of the University of Toronto, and the Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics at Harvard. Originally from Maine, he lives in New York City.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 433
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780141991900
ISBN-10: 0141991909
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 472212
Ausstattung / Beilage: B-format paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sedgewick, Augustine
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin
Maße: 198 x 132 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Augustine Sedgewick
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2021
Gewicht: 0,32 kg
preigu-id: 118866597
Über den Autor
Augustine Sedgewick earned his doctorate at Harvard University and teaches History and American studies at the City University of New York. His research on the global history of work, food, and capitalism has won fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Jackman Humanities Institute of the University of Toronto, and the Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics at Harvard. Originally from Maine, he lives in New York City.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 433
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780141991900
ISBN-10: 0141991909
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 472212
Ausstattung / Beilage: B-format paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sedgewick, Augustine
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin
Maße: 198 x 132 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Augustine Sedgewick
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2021
Gewicht: 0,32 kg
preigu-id: 118866597
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