Coffee : a dark history

Wild, Antony 1955- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0393060713
Physical Description: print
xi, 323 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-310) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. The way we live now -- 2. Origins -- 3. Enter the dragon -- 4. The mocha trade -- 5. Coffee and societies -- 6. The fall of mocha -- 7. Slavery and the coffee colonies -- 8. The continental system and Napoleon's alternative to coffee -- 9. Napoleon and St. Helena -- 10. Slavery, Brazil, and coffee -- 11. The great exhibition -- 12. Harar and Rimbaud : the cradle and the crucible -- 13. Modern times -- 14. Coffee, science, and history -- 15. The battle of the hemispheres -- 16. Fair trade -- 17. Espresso : the Esperanto of coffee -- 18. The heart of darkness -- App. The find at Kush.