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
Author: Sedgewick, Augustine
Publication Date: 04/06/2021
Format: Paperback
The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world
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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 worldās 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 historyāa place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence. In the process, both El Salvador and the United States earned the nickname āCoffeeland,ā 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,Ā CoffeelandĀ tells the hidden and surprising story of one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism.
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Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
Author: Sedgewick, Augustine
Publication Date: 04/06/2021
Format: Paperback
The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world
Ā
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 worldās 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 historyāa place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence. In the process, both El Salvador and the United States earned the nickname āCoffeeland,ā 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,Ā CoffeelandĀ tells the hidden and surprising story of one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism.
