The history of coffee in El Salvador is a mighty dark roast. With energy, precision, and authentic pronunciations, Jason Culp skillfully narrates the story of coffee baron James Hill and his merciless creation of a monoculture in El Salvador. Hill destroys the vegetable gardens of locals to ensure they will need to work on his coffee plantations and then pays them partly in tortillas and beans. Culp conveys the horror of the systematic slaughter of Indians and the determination of leftist activists who advocate for better wages and conditions. COFFEELAND is a complicated saga that gets a bit confusing as the author segues into the origin of workplace coffee breaks, studies of metabolism, and the rise of supermarkets. Culp ensures that listeners stay with it. A.B. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
“Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in William Blake than in Marx.” -Adam Gopnik,*The New Yorker
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The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world
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Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world. But few coffee drinkers know this story. It centers on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, England, founded one of the world's great coffee dynasties at the turn of the twentieth century. Adapting the innovations of the Industrial Revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history-a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence. In the process, both El Salvador and the United States earned the nickname “Coffeeland,” but for starkly different reasons, and with consequences that reach into the present.
Provoking a reconsideration of what it means to be connected to faraway people and places, Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism.
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“Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in William Blake than in Marx.” -Adam Gopnik,*The New Yorker
*
The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world
*
Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world. But few coffee drinkers know this story. It centers on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, England, founded one of the world's great coffee dynasties at the turn of the twentieth century. Adapting the innovations of the Industrial Revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history-a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence. In the process, both El Salvador and the United States earned the nickname “Coffeeland,” but for starkly different reasons, and with consequences that reach into the present.
Provoking a reconsideration of what it means to be connected to faraway people and places, Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism.
Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
“Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in William Blake than in Marx.” -Adam Gopnik,*The New Yorker
*
The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world
*
Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world. But few coffee drinkers know this story. It centers on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, England, founded one of the world's great coffee dynasties at the turn of the twentieth century. Adapting the innovations of the Industrial Revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history-a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence. In the process, both El Salvador and the United States earned the nickname “Coffeeland,” but for starkly different reasons, and with consequences that reach into the present.
Provoking a reconsideration of what it means to be connected to faraway people and places, Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism.
“Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in William Blake than in Marx.” -Adam Gopnik,*The New Yorker
*
The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world
*
Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world. But few coffee drinkers know this story. It centers on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, England, founded one of the world's great coffee dynasties at the turn of the twentieth century. Adapting the innovations of the Industrial Revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history-a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence. In the process, both El Salvador and the United States earned the nickname “Coffeeland,” but for starkly different reasons, and with consequences that reach into the present.
Provoking a reconsideration of what it means to be connected to faraway people and places, Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism.
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BN ID: | 2940177425863 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
Publication date: | 04/07/2020 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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