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Cover: 9780821423875 | Coffee Is not Forever – A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust
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Coffee Is not Forever
A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust
Taschenbuch von Stuart McCook
Sprache: Englisch

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The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foundations. In Coffee Is Not Forever, Stuart McCook explores the transnational story of this essential crop through a history of one of its most devastating diseases, the coffee leaf rust. He deftly synthesizes agricultural, social, and economic histories with plant genetics and plant pathology to investigate the increasing interdependence of the world’s coffee-producing zones. In the process, he illuminates the progress and prognosis of the challenges-especially climate change-that pose an existential threat to a crop that global consumers often take for granted. And finally, in putting a tropical plant disease at the forefront, he has crafted the first truly global environmental history of coffee, pushing its study and the discipline in bold new directions.
The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foundations. In Coffee Is Not Forever, Stuart McCook explores the transnational story of this essential crop through a history of one of its most devastating diseases, the coffee leaf rust. He deftly synthesizes agricultural, social, and economic histories with plant genetics and plant pathology to investigate the increasing interdependence of the world’s coffee-producing zones. In the process, he illuminates the progress and prognosis of the challenges-especially climate change-that pose an existential threat to a crop that global consumers often take for granted. And finally, in putting a tropical plant disease at the forefront, he has crafted the first truly global environmental history of coffee, pushing its study and the discipline in bold new directions.
Über den Autor

Stuart McCook is professor of history at the University of Guelph. His research focuses on the environmental history of tropical crops and commodities. He is also the author of States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Abbreviations and Acronyms xxi

Chapter 1 The Devourer of Dreams 1

Chapter 2 Coffee Rust Contained 17

Chapter 3 The Epicenter: Ceylon 36

Chapter 4 Arabica Graveyards: Asia and the Pacific 65

Chapter 5 Robusta to the Rescue 90

Chapter 6 The “Malaria of Coffee”: Africa 108

Chapter 7 Coffee, Cold War, and Colonial Modernization 125

Chapter 8 A Plague Foretold: Latin America 140

Chapter 9 The Big Rust 171

Chapter 10 Coffee Is Not (Necessarily) Forever 197

Notes 207

Bibliography 235

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Series in Ecology and History
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780821423875
ISBN-10: 0821423878
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McCook, Stuart
Hersteller: Ohio University Press
Series in Ecology and History
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 227 x 154 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Stuart McCook
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.10.2019
Gewicht: 0,378 kg
Artikel-ID: 121244001
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