Purchase

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Powell's Books

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Ripped Bodice

Add to Wish List

Also by Mark Pendergrast:

Uncommon Grounds, October 2010
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Uncommon Grounds, April 2000
Trade Size
For God, Country, and Coca-Cola, March 2000
Trade Size (reprint)

Uncommon Grounds
Mark Pendergrast

The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World

Basic Books
April 2000
On Sale: April 25, 2000
554 pages
ISBN: 0465054676
EAN: 9780465054671
Trade Size
Add to Wish List

Historical | Non-Fiction

The first comprehensive business and social history of coffee, which describes how coffee has dominated and molded the economies, politics, and social structures of entire countries. Pendergrast's scrupulously researched and lively anecdotal history provides a window through which to view broader themes of modern-day media and marketing, the rise of mass production, colonialism, women's issues, and international commodity schemes.

No awards found for this book.

Comments

No comments posted.

Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!