Coffee Worlds : Global Players and Local Actors in 20th-Century Germany

Category

In Series:

GHIL Podcast
(2013)

Date Issued:

2013

Language:

English

Type of Resource:

Text

DDC subject:

900 Geschichte und Geografie

Hosting institution:

German Historical Institute London

citation/reference:

22.10.2013 - Coffee, one of the most important global commodities since the late 19th century, has connected very different physical, social and symbolic worlds. Dorothee Wierling focuses on one group of actors, the coffee merchants as agents of globalisation. The talk will explore the economic, social and political frameworks in which those merchants acted. Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship Lecture 2013. 60 min, 24.7 MB