The team I'll be teaching with next year is thinking about beginning our
political economy course with a case study of coffee -- its history,
relationship to colonial exploitation, production and use within
capitalism, ecological impacts, etc. (We are located in the heartland
of the Coffee Cult.)
Has anyone read Mark Pendergrast's UNCOMMON GROUNDS? What do you
think? How does it compare to the other books about coffee that have
come out recently?
(Personally, I have to admit that coffee is not my cup of tea.)
Peter
