Coffee: A Dark History

"Masterful and exhaustive . . . eye-opening lessons in economics, ethics, culture and science, resulting in a comprehensive overview of a commodity that is second only to oil in its importance to world trade." -Worcester Evening News

Coffee trader and historian Antony Wild delivers a rollicking history of the most valuable legally traded commodity in the world after oil-an industry that employs 100 million people throughout the world. From obscure beginnings in east Africa in the fifteenth c...