Augustine Sedgewick Livres

"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 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 to turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history, a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence. Following coffee from Hill family plantations into supermarkets, kitchens, and workplaces across the United States, and finally into today's ubiquitous cafés, Sedgewick reveals how coffee bred vast wealth and hard poverty, at once connecting and dividing the modern world. 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. This extraordinary history of coffee opens up a new perspective on how the globalized world works, ultimately provoking a reconsideration of what it means to be connected to faraway people and places through the familiar things that make up our day-to-day lives"-- Provided by publisher

Coffee is an indispensible part of daily life for billions of people around the world. It is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the leading source of the world's most popular drug. The very word 'coffee' is one of the most widespread on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's COFFEELAND tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee's four-hundred-year transformation from a mysterious Ottoman custom to an everyday necessity. The story is one that few coffee drinkers know, even those working in the industry. It centres on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, founded one of the world's great coffee dynasties in the late nineteenth century. Adapting the innovations of the industrial revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped to turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history, a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence. The book follows coffee from the Hill family plantations through international markets and into the United States, through the San Francisco roasting plants and vacuum-sealed cans of the major coffee brands, into supermarkets, kitchens, and work places, and finally into today's omnipresent cafes. Augustine Sedgewick shows how a form of global capitalism both connected and divided people, between those who worked with coffee and those who actually drank it, marking a line between the world's rich and poor. Sedgewick reveals how the growth of coffee production, trade, and consumption went hand in hand with the rise of the scientific idea of energy as a universal force, which transformed thinking about how the human body works, as well as ideas about the relationship of one person's work to another's. This had consequences that resulted both in the reshaping of large areas of the tropics and in the ubiquity of a drug served in a cup

The book offers a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of fatherhood from the Bronze Age to contemporary times. It delves into the origins of our concepts of fatherhood, examining how societal changes have reshaped the role of fathers throughout history. By analyzing different eras and cultural contexts, it seeks to understand the current significance of being a dad, highlighting the complexities and transformations in paternal roles over the centuries.