Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug - Paperback

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Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug - Paperback

Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug - Paperback

by Augustine Sedgewick
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by Augustine Sedgewick (Author)

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

"Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in William Blake than in Marx." --Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world

Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world. But few coffee drinkers know this story. It centers on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, England, founded one of the world's great coffee dynasties at the turn of the twentieth century. Adapting the innovations of the Industrial Revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history--a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence. In the process, both El Salvador and the United States earned the nickname "Coffeeland," but for starkly different reasons, and with consequences that reach into the present.

Provoking a reconsideration of what it means to be connected to faraway people and places, Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism.

Author Biography

Augustine Sedgewick earned his doctorate at Harvard University and teaches at the City University of New York. His research on the global history of food, work, and capitalism has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics at Harvard, and has been published in History of the Present, International Labor and Working-Class History, and Labor. Originally from Maine, Sedgewick lives in New York City.

Number of Pages: 448
Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: April 06, 2021
ISBN9780143110743
Author Augustine Sedgewick
PublisherPenguin Books
GenreHistory and Business
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages448
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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