Table of Contents
Introduction to the 1998 Edition xi
Book 1 Islam's Wine
I Night in the Land of Yemen 3
II The Fight Against Bacchus 11
III Trimethyldioxypurin 21
IV Persecution and Victory 27
V Kolshitsky's Valiant Deed 36
Book 2 Health of the Nations
VI Venetian Commerce 49
VII King Beer 53
VIII Doctorial Discussions in Marseille 65
IX Suleiman Aga and the Parisians 76
X Brother Coffee 89
Book 3 Planters, Traders, and Kings
XI The Island Realm of the Dutch 107
XII Coffee and Absolutism 122
XIII The Literary Century 133
XIV Luxuries and Potentates 148
XV Napoleon's Alliance with Chicory 163
Book 4 Coffee in the Nineteenth Century
XVI The Advance of Tea 181
XVII Pleasures of the Ladies of Berlin 185
XVIII Coffee-House Frequenters in Austria 193
XIX Speculation and the Spanish Crisis 202
XX Overseas Harvests, World Markets, and Prices 209
Book 5 Brazilian Dictatorship
XXI Soil, Empire, and the Labour Problem 225
XXII Ruin of the Plantations in Ceylon 239
XXIII The Economic Struggle of Brazil 246
XXIV Reason Becomes Nonsense-Bon Fires of Coffee 260
XXV Envoy 274
Postscript 283
Bibliography 287
Index 293
