《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|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 [[OttomanEmpire|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|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.
• [[MihuanChishu|蜜獾吃书]] - podcast context for the discussion.