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benbreen · 2017-02-01 · Original thread
Brian Cowan's The Social Life of Coffee [1] is the best book on the history of coffee that I know of. Fascinating story, in part because coffee's history with humans is far more brief than that of alcohol or opium. There's basically an order of magnitude difference between the former and the latter (1k years of consumption vs 10k).

I also agree with the Braudel recommendation.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Social-Life-Coffee-Emergence-Coffeeho...

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