Coffee trader and historian Antony Wild delivers a rollicking
history of the most valuable legally traded commodity in the world
after oil an industry that employs 100 million people throughout
the world. From obscure beginnings in east Africa in the fifteenth
century as a stimulant in religious devotion, coffee became an
imperial commodity, produced by poor tropical countries and
consumed by rich temperate ones. Through the centuries, the
influence of coffee on the rise of capitalism and its institutions
has been enormous. Revolutions were once hatched in coffeehouses,
commercial alliances were forged, secret societies were formed, and
politics and art were endlessly debated. Today, while coffee chains
spread like wildfire, coffee-producing countries are in crisis:
with prices at a historic low, they are plagued by unprecedented
unemployment, abandoned farms, enforced migration, and massive
social disruption. Bridging the gap between coffee s dismal
colonial past and its perilous corporate present, Coffee reveals
the shocking exploitation that has always lurked at the heart of
the industry."
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