Just finished "Coffee: A Dark History" by Antony Wild.
I’m not sure of his intentions; criticism of colonialism or anti slavery but this book had more off ramps than the interstate.
I really don’t care how many cups of coffee Napoleon drank in a day and worst that it took 3 pages to tell the tale.
I enjoyed the chapter on Vietnam and how coffee exploits the economy, ecology, and indigenous peoples.
Spoiler alert! The product of coffee always has depended on cheap labor and that has taken many forms: slavery, ruined economy and colonialism.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/6547738-coffee
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