History 497A, F08

History of Coffee

 

 

Turkish girl having coffee on the sofa, from the ´Collection of Prints of Costumes from the Levant´, engraved by I. Haussard, 1707-08 (coloured engraving).

 

 

 

Syllabus for class   

Articles:  

Habermas reading

Standage, two chapters of History of the World in Six Glasses

McDonald, Michelle.  "The Chance of the Moment: Coffee and the New West Indies Commodities Trade" in William and Mary Quarterly, vol 62, no.3, July 2005. 

Pincus, Steve.  "Coffee Politicians Does Create":  Coffee Houses and Restoration Political Culture."  Journal of Modern History vol 67., no 4, December 1995, pp. 807-834.  (link via JSTOR)

Selma Akyazici Özkoçak.  "Coffehouses: Rethinking the Public and Private in Early Modern Istanbul."  Journal of Urban History 2007; volume 33; pp. 965-88. 

Keith Suter, "The Rise and Fall of English Coffee Houses."  Contemporary Review (research citation).

McCants, Anne C.  "Exotic Goods, Popular Consumption, and the Standard of Living: Thinking about Globalization in the Early Modern World."  Journal of World History, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2007, pp. 433-464. 

Primary Docs:

By the King, A Proclamation

 

Unknown author, London, 1670-75, The Character of the Coffee House

http://www.csun.edu/~kaddison/public_html/coffee1.htm

 

Balzac, The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee