Stuart McCook

Coffee Is Not Forever (eBook, ePUB)

A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foundations. In Coffee Is Not Forever, Stuart McCook explores the transnational story of this essential crop through a history of one of its most devastating diseases, the coffee leaf rust. He deftly synthesizes agricultural, social, and economic histories with plant genetics and plant pathology to investigate the increasing interdependence of the world's coffee-producing zones. In the process, he illuminates the progress and prognosis of the challenges-especially climate change-that pose an existential threat to a crop that global consumers often take for granted. And finally, in putting a tropical plant disease at the forefront, he has crafted the first truly global environmental history of coffee, pushing its study and the discipline in bold new directions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780821446843
• Artikelnr.: 57811388

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