Grounds for Revolution: the Stimulating Story of How Coffee Shaped the World
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The History of Coffee in El Salvador
Coffee rust is a fungus that swept through and destroyed coffee plantations throughout asia, but central and south america escaped its ravages. Coffee was increasingly being grown in this hemisphere, and also increasingly being drunk here. Over the course of the twentieth century, coffee came to dominate el salvador's economy like few products had ever dominated any national economy s. Its probably the most intensive monoculture in the history of the modern world. Really an extraordinary devotion by a independent nation of its economy to a single crop.
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