Theoretical and methodological grounds for the analysis -- Material and historical grounds for the analysis -- The coffee commodity chain under U.S. hegemony, 1945-1972 -- Struggles over regulation of the chain, 1973-1989 -- Globalization and coffee crises, 1990-? -- The struggle for control of...

"The epic story of the rise of coffee in the Americas, and how it connected and divided the modern world. 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...