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Coffee is not forever : a global history of the coffee leaf rust / Stuart McCook.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
McCook, Stuart George, 1965- author.
Series:
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Hemileia vastatrix.
Coffee rust disease--History.
Coffee rust disease.
Coffee rust disease--Environmental aspects.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxiv, 281 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
Summary:
"Coffee Is Not Forever assesses the global spread of a dire existential threat-coffee rust-to a crop consumers take for granted. In departing from commodity histories' usual emphasis on the social and economic, and instead putting ecology at the forefront, Stuart McCook offers the first truly global environmental history of coffee"-- Provided by publisher
Contents:
The Devourer of Dreams
Coffee Rust Contained
The Epicenter : Ceylon
Arabica Graveyards : Asia and the Pacific
Robusta to the Rescue
The "Malaria of Coffee" : Africa
Coffee, Cold War, and Colonial Modernization
A Plague Foretold : Latin America
The Big Rust
Coffee Is Not (Necessarily) Forever.
Notes:
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-269) and index.
ISBN:
9780821446843
0821446843
OCLC:
1138875592

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