THE GLOBAL COFFEE ECONOMY IN AFRICA, ASIA, AND LATIN AMERICA, 1500-1989 by William Gervase Clarence-Smith (Editor), Steven Topik (Editor) ( 9780511512193 )

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Title:

THE GLOBAL COFFEE ECONOMY IN AFRICA, ASIA, AND LATIN AMERICA, 1500-1989

By:

William Gervase Clarence-Smith (Editor), Steven Topik (Editor)

Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

0511512198

ISBN 13:

9780511512193

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 September, 2009

Description:

This 2003 volume analyzes the markets, societies, technology and colonial cultures involved in the coffee economy.

Synopsis:

Coffee beans grown in Brazil, Colombia, Vietnam, or one of the other hundred producing lands on five continents remain a palpable and long-standing manifestation of globalization. For five hundred years coffee has been grown in tropical countries for consumption in temperate regions. This 2003 volume brings together scholars from nine countries who study coffee markets and societies over the last five centuries in fourteen countries on four continents and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with a special emphasis on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The chapters analyse the creation and function of commodity, labour, and financial markets; the role of race, ethnicity, gender, and class in the formation of coffee societies; the interaction between technology and ecology; and the impact of colonial powers, nationalist regimes, and the forces of the world economy in the forging of economic development and political democracy.

Illustrations:

10 maps 28 tables

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Returns:

Non-returnable

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