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Coffee Is Not Forever
A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust
Taschenbuch von Stuart McCook
Sprache: Englisch

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Coffee Is Not Forever assesses the global spread of a dire existential threat-coffee rust-to a crop consumers take for granted. In departing from commodity histories' usual emphasis on the social and economic, and instead putting ecology at the forefront, Stuart McCook offers the first truly global environmental history of coffee.
Coffee Is Not Forever assesses the global spread of a dire existential threat-coffee rust-to a crop consumers take for granted. In departing from commodity histories' usual emphasis on the social and economic, and instead putting ecology at the forefront, Stuart McCook offers the first truly global environmental history of coffee.
Über den Autor
Stuart McCook is professor of history at the University of Guelph. His research focuses on the environmental history of tropical crops and commodities. He is also the author of States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Abbreviations and Acronyms xxi

Chapter 1 The Devourer of Dreams 1

Chapter 2 Coffee Rust Contained 17

Chapter 3 The Epicenter: Ceylon 36

Chapter 4 Arabica Graveyards: Asia and the Pacific 65

Chapter 5 Robusta to the Rescue 90

Chapter 6 The “Malaria of Coffee”: Africa 108

Chapter 7 Coffee, Cold War, and Colonial Modernization 125

Chapter 8 A Plague Foretold: Latin America 140

Chapter 9 The Big Rust 171

Chapter 10 Coffee Is Not (Necessarily) Forever 197

Notes 207

Bibliography 235

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780821423875
ISBN-10: 0821423878
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McCook, Stuart
Hersteller: Ohio University Press
Maße: 227 x 154 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Stuart McCook
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.10.2019
Gewicht: 0,378 kg
Artikel-ID: 121244001
Über den Autor
Stuart McCook is professor of history at the University of Guelph. His research focuses on the environmental history of tropical crops and commodities. He is also the author of States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Abbreviations and Acronyms xxi

Chapter 1 The Devourer of Dreams 1

Chapter 2 Coffee Rust Contained 17

Chapter 3 The Epicenter: Ceylon 36

Chapter 4 Arabica Graveyards: Asia and the Pacific 65

Chapter 5 Robusta to the Rescue 90

Chapter 6 The “Malaria of Coffee”: Africa 108

Chapter 7 Coffee, Cold War, and Colonial Modernization 125

Chapter 8 A Plague Foretold: Latin America 140

Chapter 9 The Big Rust 171

Chapter 10 Coffee Is Not (Necessarily) Forever 197

Notes 207

Bibliography 235

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780821423875
ISBN-10: 0821423878
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McCook, Stuart
Hersteller: Ohio University Press
Maße: 227 x 154 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Stuart McCook
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.10.2019
Gewicht: 0,378 kg
Artikel-ID: 121244001
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