Coffeeland
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*Winner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize*'Thoroughly
engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic'Wonderful, energising'
Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianCoffee 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 cafes. 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
Výber kníh autorov
Penguin Books Ltd ,
Augustine Sedgewick
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Penguin Books Ltd,
Augustine Sedgewick
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Slovart
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