Sedgewick
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sedgewick reveals the unexpected consequences of the rise of coffee, which reshaped large areas of the tropics, transformed understandings of energy, and ultimately made us dependent on a drug served in a cupin very good conditionoxfam bookshop clifton 'thoroughly engrossing' michael pollan, the atlantic'wonderful, energising' kathryn hughes, the guardian'gripping' the spectator'an eye-opening, stimulating brew' the economistcoffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the world's most popular drugaugustine sedgewick's brilliant new history tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee's 400-year transformation into an everyday necessitythe story is one that few coffee drinkers knowthe very word 'coffee' is one of the most widespread on the planetcoffeeland centres on the volcanic highlands of el salvador, where james hill, born in the slums of nineteenth-century manchester, founded one of the world's great coffee dynasties see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book follows coffee from the hill family plantations into the united states, through the san francisco roasting plants into supermarkets, kitchens and work places, and finally into today's omnipresent cafésadapting the innovations of the industrial revolution to plantation agriculture, hill helped to turn el salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history, a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality and violence
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14 €
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Full size sedgewick english black leather platinum browband patent caveson noseband like new only used a handful of times paid ÂŁ150 read more
100 €
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This is the description from the site i bought it from it’s new i only hacked in it, once i’ve found it wasn’t right for her, it’s the most beautiful bridle ive seen, jeffries gentle bridle - plain weymouth designed for comfort and to work with the anatomical features of the head and neck shaped padded head piece relieves pressure on the sensitive areas rings link component parts enabling bridle to find it’s natural resting position hinged noseband enables even contact without creating pressure points noseband and brow band are shaped to follow the contours of the skull bilaterally adjustable manufactured using the finest english sedgewick leather fei competition legal (excluding bit-less) read more
300 €