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Coffee Is Not Forever: A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust de Stuart McCook

Coffee Is Not Forever: A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust: Ecology & History

Autor Stuart McCook
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 oct 2019

Analizând bazele de date academice și volumele dedicate istoriei agrare, observăm că Coffee Is Not Forever ocupă o nișă distinctă, fiind prima istorie de mediu cu adevărat globală care plasează o boală a plantelor în centrul narativ. Stuart McCook explorează fragilitatea ecologică a industriei mondiale a cafelei, urmărind parcursul devastator al „ruginii frunzelor de cafea”. Descoperim aici o sinteză riguroasă între istoria socială și științele dure, precum genetica și patologia vegetală, oferind o perspectivă tehnică asupra modului în care patogenii au modelat economiile transnaționale.

Această abordare completează perspectiva oferită de Coffee de Robert W. Thurston, adăugând o analiză profundă a crizelor biologice acolo unde Thurston se concentrează mai mult pe cultura și prăjirea boabelor. În timp ce Coffee Culture de Catherine M. Tucker investighează cafeaua ca fenomen antropologic și simbol cultural, lucrarea lui McCook se concentrează pe amenințările existențiale și pe vulnerabilitatea biologică a culturilor în fața schimbărilor climatice. Structura cărții este una academică, potrivită pentru cercetători și profesioniști, oferind date concrete despre interdependența zonelor de producție și prognozele sumbre ale epidemiilor vegetale.

În contextul operei sale, volumul se distanțează de temele din Invisible Labour in Modern Science, unde McCook analiza rolul lucrătorilor anonimi din cercetare, și se îndreaptă către o istorie ecologică sistemică. Autorul demonstrează cum o singură ciupercă microscopică poate destabiliza piețe globale, forțând cititorul să reevalueze siguranța unui produs pe care mulți îl consideră de la sine înțeles.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780821423868
ISBN-10: 082142386X
Pagini: 306
Ilustrații: 28
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria Ecology & History

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la istorie, agronomie sau studii de mediu. Coffee Is Not Forever oferă un argument solid despre modul în care patologia plantelor influențează geopolitica și economia. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege de ce sustenabilitatea cafelei depinde nu doar de piață, ci și de capacitatea noastră de a gestiona crizele biologice într-un climat în schimbare.

Despre autor

Stuart McCook este un istoric specializat în istoria științei și a mediului, cu un interes deosebit pentru regiunile tropicale. Lucrările sale anterioare, precum Invisible Labour in Modern Science, reflectă preocuparea pentru mecanismele ascunse ale progresului științific. În volumul de față, publicat de Ohio University Press, McCook își folosește expertiza pentru a demonstra intersecția dintre biologie și istoria globală, fiind recunoscut pentru capacitatea de a sintetiza date complexe din patologia plantelor în narațiuni istorice coerente.

Descriere scurtă

The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foundations. In Coffee Is Not Forever, Stuart McCook explores the transnational story of this essential crop through a history of one of its most devastating diseases, the coffee leaf rust. He deftly synthesizes agricultural, social, and economic histories with plant genetics and plant pathology to investigate the increasing interdependence of the world’s coffee-producing zones. In the process, he illuminates the progress and prognosis of the challenges—especially climate change—that pose an existential threat to a crop that global consumers often take for granted. And finally, in putting a tropical plant disease at the forefront, he has crafted the first truly global environmental history of coffee, pushing its study and the discipline in bold new directions.

Recenzii

“Exhaustively researched and accessibly written, McCook offers a timely contribution with this forward-looking book, which asks us to consider what social and ecological resilience look like as we advance into an uncertain future. Though formally a work of agricultural history, it will be of use as a detailed reference for researchers outside the discipline, as well as to the particularly curious coffee afcionado.”—Sabine Parrish, Agriculture and Human Values

“McCook makes crucial contributions to a number of related fields that usually don’t intersect: history of science, global history, and commodity studies. His decision to focus on the science of plant disease and the politics and institutions related results in a welcome challenge to the anthropocentrism that too often dominates the study of history. With stunning breadth of research and inquiry, this is a rich and original work.”—Steven C. Topik, author (with Allen Wells) of Global Markets Transformed: 1870–1945

“Coffee Is Not Forever is top-notch scholarship that provides a rare pan-tropical analysis of the interactions of people, plants, and pathogens in the coffee regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This book will be of immense value to readers interested not only in coffee, but also environmental and commodity histories more broadly. Like all great transnational histories, it is both connected and comparative. And for the latte generation, this book may forever change the way they think about robusta coffee.”—John Soluri, author of Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States

“There is an urgent need for books like [this]. Even as people are more attuned than ever before to the grim realities of a pandemic amidst the constant, rapid ricochet of human bodies around the planet, many remain unaware of the epidemics that rage among our most essential companion species—that is, among domesticated crops and livestock. It is possible that zoonotic diseases will garner greater attention thanks to desperate curiosity about the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Meanwhile, plant diseases will go on multiplying, with their sustained discussion unlikely outside agroindustry and agronomy. McCook’s timely study makes clear the consequences of collective blindness to these ever-present epidemics in his globe-spanning, 150-year history of Hemileia vastatrix. That is the fungus responsible for coffee leaf rust, a disease for which there is no cure. The measures that have been, and still are being, taken to keep your morning coffee affordable and palatable in light of the rust might provide as much of a jolt as the java itself.”—Helen Anne Curry, Environmental History

Notă biografică

Stuart McCook is professor of history at the University of Guelph. His research focuses on the environmental history of tropical crops and commodities. He is also the author of States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760–1940.

Descriere

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.

Cuprins

Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Abbreviations and Acronyms xxi

Chapter 1 The Devourer of Dreams 1

Chapter 2 Coffee Rust Contained 17

Chapter 3 The Epicenter: Ceylon 36

Chapter 4 Arabica Graveyards: Asia and the Pacific 65

Chapter 5 Robusta to the Rescue 90

Chapter 6 The “Malaria of Coffee”: Africa 108

Chapter 7 Coffee, Cold War, and Colonial Modernization 125

Chapter 8 A Plague Foretold: Latin America 140

Chapter 9 The Big Rust 171

Chapter 10 Coffee Is Not (Necessarily) Forever 197

Notes 207

Bibliography 235

Index