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CoffeelandAugustine Sedgewick
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Coffeeland

448 pagesFirst published 20207 editions
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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 - one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism, the leading source of the world's most popular drug, and perhaps the most widespread word on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee's five-hundred-year transformation from a mysterious Muslim ritual into an everyday necessity. This story is one that few coffee drinkers know. It…

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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionPenguin Books, Limited2021—9780141991900
EditionPenguin Publishing Group20214489780143110743
EditionThorndike Press Large Print2020—9781432880941
HardcoverPenguin Press20204489781594206153
EditionPenguin Publishing Group20204489780698167933
EditionPenguin Books, Limited2020—9780241426234
EditionPenguin Books, Limited20204489780241426227
Beverage industryCoffee tradeCoffee industryHistoryEconomic aspectsGlobalizationHISTORY / Latin America / GeneralBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Globalization