Black Gold. Antony Wild

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      This eBook first published by 4th Estate in 2019

      First published as Coffee: A Dark History by 4th Estate 2004

      Copyright © Antony Wild 2004

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      Source ISBN: 9780008353438

      Ebook Edition © 2019 ISBN: 9780007387601

      Version: 2019-05-09

      Contents

       Cover

       Title page

Copyright

Preface

Prologue

Introduction

1 The Way We Live Now

2 Origins

3 Enter the Dragon

4 The Mocha Trade

       5 Coffee and Societies

       6 The Fall of Mocha

       7 Slavery and the Coffee Colonies

       8 The Continental System and Napoleon’s Alternative to Coffee

       9 Napoleon and St Helena

       10 Slavery, Brazil, and Coffee

       11 The Great Exhibition

       12 Harar and Rimbaud: the Cradle and the Crucible

       13 Modern Times

       14 Coffee, Science, and History

       15 The Battle of the Hemispheres

       16 Fair Trade

       17 Espresso: the Esperanto of Coffee

       18 The Heart of Darkness

       Coda

       Appendix – The Find at Kush

       Epilogue

       List of Illustrations

       Picture Section

       Selected Further Reading

       Index

       Acknowledgements for the Revised Edition

       P.S.: Ideas, Interviews & features …

       About the Author

       By the Same Author

       About the Publisher