Brewing socialism : coffee, East Germans, and 20th century globalization / Andrew Kloiber

"Placing coffee at the center of its analysis, Brewing Socialism links East Germany's consumption and food culture to its relationship to the wider world. Andrew Kloiber reveals the ways that everyday cultural practices surrounding coffee drinking not only connected East Germans to a globa...

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Main Authors:Kloiber, Andrew
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2023
Series:Studies in German history; volume 27
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents
"A word on coffee": coffee and everyday life in East Germany, 1945-1965
Coffee and the "modern comforts" of socialism
Bitter grounds: East Germany's "coffee crisis" of 1977-1978
Bread and guns for coffee: searching for coffee in Ethiopia and Angola, 1977-1979
Cultivating coffee, brewing solidarity in Laos and Vietnam, 1979-1986