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Author McCook, Stuart George, 1965- author

Title Coffee is not forever : a global history of the coffee leaf rust / Stuart McCook
Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 281 pages) : illustrations
Series Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Hemileia vastatrix.
Coffee rust disease -- History
Coffee rust disease -- Environmental aspects
HISTORY / Historical Geography
Coffee rust disease
Hemileia vastatrix
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821446843
0821446843