The Social Life of Coffee - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Life of Coffee write by Brian Cowan. This book was released on 2008-10-01. The Social Life of Coffee available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
Coffee Life in Japan
Coffee Life in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coffee Life in Japan write by Merry White. This book was released on 2012-05. Coffee Life in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This fascinating book—part ethnography, part memoir—traces Japan’s vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan’s coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White’s book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been central to the formation of Japanese notions about the uses of public space, social change, modernity, and pleasure. White describes how the café in Japan, from its start in 1888, has been a place to encounter new ideas and experiments in thought, behavior, sexuality , dress, and taste. It is where a person can be socially, artistically, or philosophically engaged or politically vocal. It is also, importantly, an urban oasis, where one can be private in public.
The Social Life of Coffee
The Social Life of Coffee - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Life of Coffee write by s. d smith. This book was released on 2014. The Social Life of Coffee available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive
From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive write by Paige West. This book was released on 2012-02-10. From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. West looks at the process from which coffee is grown, gathered, sorted, shipped, and served from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to coffee shops in far away places. She shows how coffee becomes a commodity, the different forms of labor involved, and the way that coffee shapes the lives and understandings of those who grow, process, export, sell and consume coffee.
The Coffee Book
The Coffee Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Coffee Book write by Nina Luttinger. This book was released on 2012-05-01. The Coffee Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of coffee from the sixth century to Starbucks that’s “good to the last sentence” (Las Cruces Sun News). One of Library Journal’s “Best Business Books” This updated edition of The Coffee Book is jammed full of facts, figures, cartoons, and commentary covering coffee from its first use in Ethiopia in the sixth century to the rise of Starbucks and the emergence of Fair Trade coffee in the twenty-first. The book explores the process of cultivation, harvesting, and roasting from bean to cup; surveys the social history of café society from the first coffeehouses in Constantinople to beatnik havens in Berkeley and Greenwich Village; and tells the dramatic tale of high-stakes international trade and speculation for a product that can make or break entire national economies. It also examines the industry’s major players, revealing the damage that’s been done to farmers, laborers, and the environment by mass cultivation—and explores the growing “conscious coffee” market. “Drawing on sources ranging from Molière and beatnik cartoonists to the Food and Agriculture Organization, the authors describe the beverage’s long and colorful rise to ubiquity.” —The Economist “Most stimulating.” —The Baltimore Sun
