The Social Life Of Coffee Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................vii
A Note on Styles and Conventions....................xi
Introduction....................1
Part I Coffee: From Curiosity to Commodity....................5
1. An Acquired Taste....................16
2. Coffee and Early Modern Drug Culture....................31
3. From Mocha to Java....................55
Part II Inventing the Coffeehouse....................79
4. Penny Universities?....................89
5. Exotic Fantasies and Commercial Anxieties....................113
Part III Civilizing the Coffeehouses....................147
6. Before Bureaucracy....................152
7. Policing the Coffeehouse....................193
8. Civilizing Society....................225
Conclusion....................257
Notes....................265
Bibliography....................311
Index....................355