{"product_id":"coffeeland-book-augustine-sedgewick-9780241426227","title":"Coffeeland","description":"'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic  'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian  'Gripping' The Spectator  'An eye-opening, stimulating brew' The Economist  Coffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the  global economy and the world's most popular drug. The very word 'coffee'  is one of the most widespread on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's  brilliant new history tells the hidden and surprising story of how this  came to be, tracing coffee's 400-year transformation into an everyday  necessity.  The story is one that few coffee drinkers know. Coffeeland  centres on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill,  born in the slums of nineteenth-century Manchester, founded one of the  world's great coffee dynasties. Adapting the innovations of the  industrial revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped to turn El  Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history, a  place of extraordinary productivity, inequality and violence.  The  book follows coffee from the Hill family plantations into the United  States, through the San Francisco roasting plants into supermarkets,  kitchens and work places, and finally into today's omnipresent cafés.  Sedgewick reveals the unexpected consequences of the rise of coffee,  which reshaped large areas of the tropics, transformed understandings of  energy, and ultimately made us dependent on a drug served in a cup.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49548400918801,"sku":"GOR010562332","price":20.89,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49928144519441,"sku":"GOR010556377","price":58.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51323948499217,"sku":"GOR012285234","price":27.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0241426227.jpg?v=1751291177","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/coffeeland-book-augustine-sedgewick-9780241426227","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}