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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.

Publication Info. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 281 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Hemileia vastatrix.
Hemileia vastatrix.
Coffee rust disease -- History.
Coffee rust disease.
History.
Coffee rust disease -- Environmental aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: McCook, Stuart George, 1965- Coffee is not forever. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2019 9780821423868 (DLC) 2019026882 (OCoLC)1107057467
ISBN 9780821446843 (electronic book)
0821446843 (electronic book)
9780821423868
082142386X
9780821423875
0821423878