Guaraná : How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant /
"Guaraná's journey elucidates human impacts on Amazonian ecosystems; the circulation of knowledge, goods, and power; and the promise of modernity in Latin America's largest nation. For Garfield, the beverage's cross-cultural history reveals not only the structuring of inequaliti...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- An eye on the past and the present
- The roots of history and myth
- Colonial missions: remaking plants and people
- Silva Coutinho's plant: nineteenth-century science and Amazonian geopolitics
- Drug prospects: guaraná's Anglo-American boom and bust
- From Guarani to guaraná: forging a national industry
- Message in a bottle: selling guaraná
- Growing the pie: transformations in Brazilian agriculture and diet
- Fast times, slow food: indigenizing modernity
- A Brazilian original.