Guaraná : how Brazil embraced the world's most caffeine-rich plant / Seth Garfield.
| Author/creator | Garfield, Seth, 1967- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022] |
| Description | xiii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | An eye on the past and the present -- The roots of history and myth -- Colonial missions: remaking plants and people -- Silva Coutinho's plant: nineteenth-century science and Amazonian geopolitics -- Drug prospects: guaraná's Anglo-American boom and bust -- From Guarani to guaraná: forging a national industry -- Message in a bottle: selling guaraná -- Growing the pie: transformations in Brazilian agriculture and diet -- Fast times, slow food: indigenizing modernity -- A Brazilian original. |
| Abstract | "Guaraná's journey elucidates human impacts on Amazonian ecosystems; the circulation of knowledge, goods, and power; and the promise of modernity in Latin America's largest nation. For Garfield, the beverage's cross-cultural history reveals not only the structuring of inequalities in Brazil but also the mythmaking and ordering of social practices that constitute so-called traditional and modern societies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781469671291 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022024392 |
| ISBN | 9781469671260 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1469671263 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781469671277 paperback |
| ISBN | 1469671271 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | 40031536274 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HD9019 .T763 B643 2022 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |