Coffee Culture: Local experiences, Global Connections explores coffee as (1) a major
commodity that shapes the lives of millions of people;(2) a product with a dramatic history;(3) …

Over the past two decades, sales of fair trade coffee have grown significantly and the fair
trade network has emerged as an important international development project. Activists and …

In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-
nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and …

In the context of renewed academic and public interest in Britain's relationship with slavery
in the post-emancipation era, this thesis looks beyond the political borders of the British …

Victorian Media Re-Viewed: Literature and the Politics of Visual Representation in Britain,
1839-1879 examines Victorian theater, photography, and literature as forms of media that …

Peasant transformation has often been framed in dichotomous, linear, and predominantly a-
historical models. This article adopts a dynamic perspective and shows how the …

In nineteenth-century colonial Australian newspapers, foods were commonly identified by
their place of origin. Advertisements spoke of global networks and exchanges, listing Scotch …

When Julia Margaret Cameron began photographing in 1863, her contemporaries criticized
her focus, or lack-there-of. In a letter to Sir John Herschel, Cameron offers a response to her …

A “coffee paradox”–evident through the unequal political and social relations within coffee's
global value–as named by Benoit Daviron and Stefano Ponte (2005), created a “coffee …

The ideas, practices, structures, and material artefacts of food safety have long and telling
histories. While usually understood as natural and unchanging, food safety, this thesis …