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Coffee: A Dark History
Presents a history of coffee, describing its origins in fifteenth-century East Africa, its rise as an imperial consumer product, and the current economic plight of today's coffee-producing countries.
Coffee: A Dark History
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...
Black Gold: The Dark History of Coffee
Black Gold: The Dark History of Coffee
Your morning flat-white helped shape the modern world 'Elegantly written, witty and so wide in scope, so rich in detail and so thought provoking' Joanna Blythman
Black Gold: The Dark History of Coffee
The extraordinary tale of the wildfire spread of a drink which is embedded in our history and our daily cultural life - and which provides a compelling allegory for corporate greed, mercantile ruthlessness and global expansion. Arguably the most valuable legally traded...
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