Black Gold. Antony Wild
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First published as Coffee: A Dark History by 4th Estate 2004
Copyright © Antony Wild 2004
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‘The Importance of Cupping Protocol’ by Mike Riley, courtesy of the author
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Source ISBN: 9780008353438
Ebook Edition © 2019 ISBN: 9780007387601
Version: 2019-05-09
Contents
7 Slavery and the Coffee Colonies
8 The Continental System and Napoleon’s Alternative to Coffee
10 Slavery, Brazil, and Coffee
12 Harar and Rimbaud: the Cradle and the Crucible
14 Coffee, Science, and History
15 The Battle of the Hemispheres
17 Espresso: the Esperanto of Coffee
Acknowledgements for the Revised Edition
P.S.: Ideas, Interviews & features …
Dark history lifts lids and turns over stones. This onerous task can be accomplished only with the help of many who might wish for lids to remain unlifted, and stones to remain unturned. Many of my friends and colleagues from my former incarnation in the coffee trade who contributed their time, opinions, and expertise to this book do not deserve to have their names associated with such a disreputable work. They are not thus individually acknowledged, although collectively I am greatly in their debt. Myriad other sources have been ruthlessly quarried in order that this edifice might be erected: inasmuch as the book covers a wide variety of topics, I have been deeply dependent on work already done in these areas. Again, each unwitting contributor was unaware that their work would be hijacked to my particular purpose, and they remain unacknowledged, as their individual contributions to the shape of a specific stone cannot be acknowledged without unfairly implicating them in the design of the entire structure.
A note on notes, or rather the lack of them. Facts, figures, and dates are to the best of my knowledge