Coffee Occasion

Cross Country: Fifteen Years and 90,000 Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark, a lot of bad motels, a moving van, Emily Post, … kids, and enough coffee to kill an elephant

From Publishers Weekly Sullivan (Rats; The Meadowlands) offers a boisterous, busily researched composite of trips he and his family have taken across the American continent. Sullivan claims he’s gone from the West to East Coast and back about 27 times over the years, and on this particular summer [...]

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Brazil And Java: Report On Coffee-Culture In America, Asia, And Africa

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the [...]

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Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America

Review “An important book, not just for scholars of Latin America, but for anyone interested in understanding the ways in which export agriculture impacts society.” — Journal of Political Economy Review “An important book, not just for scholars of Latin America, but [...]

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Historic America: The South (Hardcover)

The South is steeped in history. Its streets are lined with antebellum homes, where the charm of the old South still exists and where hospitality comes from the heart. Only recently has the rest of America begun to fully explore the richness and diversity of the Southern experience. Historic America: The South tells [...]

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Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America (Paperback)

Review Over the past three decades, nearly every Central American nation has been at some stage of revolution, and understanding the numerous conflicts required a keen grasp of local politics. The facts were especially hard to discern because other countries, principally [...]

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Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America

Review “Academics and practitioners working in the field of sustainable development acknowledge that economic, social, political, and ecological dimensions of development are interconnected and need to be understood and addressed simultaneously. Yet few books actually achieve such an integrated approach. Confronting the Coffee Crisis does so admirably and [...]

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Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America

Review Over the past three decades, nearly every Central American nation has been at some stage of revolution, and understanding the numerous conflicts required a keen grasp of local politics. The facts were especially hard to discern because other countries, principally [...]

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Advertising in America: The First Two Hundred Years (Hardcover)

From Publishers Weekly Goodrum ( Treasures of the Library of Congress ) and Dalrymple, Library of Congress staff member, here announce that they have set out to chart–but not necessarily to debunk–the phenomenon that for 200 years has amused, shamed and seduced us into buying products we may [...]

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