Uncommon grounds : the history of coffee and how it transformed our world
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Uncommon grounds : the history of coffee and how it transformed our world
Basic Books, c1999
- : pbk
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  Iwate
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  Akita
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  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-434) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in Abyssinia to its role in intrigue in the American colonies to its rise as a national consumer product in the twentieth century and its rediscovery with the advent of Starbucks at the end of the century. A panoramic epic, Uncommon Grounds uses coffee production, trade, and consumption as a window through which to view broad historical themes: the clash and blending of cultures, the rise of marketing and the national brand, assembly line mass production, and urbanization. Coffeehouses have provided places to plan revolutions, write poetry, do business, and meet friends. The coffee industry has dominated and molded the economy, politics, and social structure of entire countries. Mark Pendergrast introduces the reader to an eccentric cast of characters, all of them with a passion for the golden bean. Uncommon Grounds is nothing less than a coffee-flavored history of the world.
Table of Contents
* Prologue: The Oriflama Harvest * Introduction: Puddle Water or Panacea? Seeds Of Conquest * Coffee Colonizes the World * The Coffee Kingdoms * The American Drink * The Great Coffee Wars of the Gilded Age * Hermann Sielcken and Brazilian Valorization * The Drug Drink Canning The Buzz * Growing Pains * Making the World Safe for Coffee * Selling an Image in the Jazz Age * Burning Beans, Starving Campesinos * Showboating the Depression * Cuppa Joe Bitter Brews * Coffee Witch Hunts and Instant Non-Gratification * Robusta Triumphant Romancing The Bean * A Scattered Band of Fanatics * The Black Frost * The Specialty Revolution * The Starbucks Experience * Eco-Coffee
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