Stuart McCook

Coffee Is Not Forever

A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust

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Produktbeschreibung

Coffee Is Not Forever assesses the global spread of a dire existential threatâ coffee rustâ to a crop consumers take for granted. In departing from commodity historiesâ 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.

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Produktdetails

• Series in Ecology and History
• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780821423875
• ISBN-10: 0821423878
• Artikelnr.: 56395022

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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