Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

Coffeeland - The Epic Story of How Coffee Connected and Divided the Modern World Discover the hidden and surprising story of one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism.

This epic tale follows the journey of James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, England, as he founded one of the world's great coffee dynasties in El Salvador at the turn of the twentieth century.

Adapting innovations from the Industrial Revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history - a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence.

Learn how coffee connected and divided the modern world, earning El Salvador and the United States the nickname "Coffeeland," with consequences that reach into the present.

With literary gifts and prodigious research, Sedgewick's story is a deeply satisfying reading experience studded with narrative surprise.

Don't miss out on this fascinating journey through the history of coffee and its impact on global connections and consumer habits worldwide.