《全球上瘾》

《全球上瘾》 is the coffee-centered material-history book discussed in 74.全球上瘾：啊，咖啡！我黑色的阿波罗！. The episode presents the book as a 1930s work that writes coffee like a mythic historical protagonist rather than as a neutral commodity entry or consumption guide.

The book’s appeal in the episode comes from narrative force. Origin legends, Arab religious debates, the Ottoman Empire, European taste adaptation, Paris coffeehouses, French royal monopoly, factory and army use, speculation, and Brazilian overproduction are organized as a story of a drink reshaping civilization. That makes the book a source case for Material History Narrative.

The episode also marks a limitation. Because the book was first published in 1934, its treatment of colonial plantation labor and slavery is described as less critical and developed than a contemporary material history would need to be.

Connections

• Coffee / 咖啡 - central historical actor in the book as presented by the episode.
• Material History Narrative - method by which the book turns a commodity into a civilization-scale story.
• Caffeinated Modernity and Coffeehouse Public Sphere - main social interpretations drawn from the episode.
• Coffee Commodity Politics - trade, monopoly, taxation, speculation, and producer-protection branch.
• 蜜獾吃书 - podcast context for the discussion.