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Please allow me to add Dr. Robert Thurston and Dr.
Sandra Woy-Hazelton to the request for syllabi. I
guess I should check the whole thread before I reply.
Bruce A. Erickson
Le Moyne College
--- David Fahey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> from David M. Fahey
> Miami University (Ohio)
>
> Here is a description of a course taught at my
> university with history
> and international studies credit.
>
> HST/IES F112 First Year Seminar: Coffee and
> Globalization–Past and
> Present Drink that “Transformed Our World”-- MWF
> 11:00-11:50
> Dr. Robert Thurston and Dr. Sandra Woy-Hazelton
> MP Historical Perspective
>
> Since the seventeenth century, coffee’s impact
> around the world has
> been huge. The second-most valuable commodity traded
> legally around the
> globe today, coffee is an ideal vehicle through
> which to study key
> aspects of European, American, and non-western
> development. Coffee was
> one of the first bulk items sought after by
> Europeans, and it was
> intimately linked to the growth of imperialism and
> unfree labor from
> Indonesia to Latin America. The history of coffee
> and its use is one of
> the best examples of globalization’s long, deep
> roots. A close look at
> commodities like coffee and sugar reveals much about
> the growth of
> early capitalism and how it depended as much on
> romanticized images of
> spaces and products as on careful calculations of
> profit and loss.
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