M&D Deep Duck Read. First cuppa coffee post

[Dave Monroe]

Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
(Dutch: Max Havelaar, of de koffi-veilingen der Nederlandsche
Handel-Maatschappy) is an 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of
Eduard Douwes Dekker) (1820-1887) which played a key role in shaping
and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in the
nineteenth and early twentieth century. In the novel, the protagonist,
Max Havelaar, tries to battle against a corrupt government system in
Java, which was then a Dutch colony.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Havelaar

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> p.6..."freshly infus'd coffee flows ev'ryplace."....and was associated
> with rebellious political activities in Europe. From Venice, it was
> introduced to the rest of Europe. Coffee became more widely accepted
> after it was deemed a Christian beverage by Pope Clement VIII in 1600,
> despite appeals to ban the "Muslim drink." The first European coffee
> house opened in Rome in 1645.[24
>
> The Dutch East India Company was the first to import coffee on a large
> scale.[25]
>
> When coffee reached North America during the Colonial period, it was
> initially not as successful as it had been in Europe as alcoholic
> beverages remained more popular. During the Revolutionary War, the
> demand for coffee increased so much that dealers had to hoard their
> scarce supplies and raise prices dramatically; this was also due to
> the reduced availability of tea from British merchants,[29] and a
> general resolution among many Americans to avoid drinking tea
> following the 1773 Boston Tea Party.[30]
>
> After the War of 1812, during which Britain temporarily cut off access
> to tea imports, the Americans' taste for coffee grew. Coffee
> consumption declined in England, giving way to tea during the 18th
> century.
>
> ed across the Americas.[33] The territory of Santo Domingo (now the
> Dominican Republic) saw coffee cultivated from 1734, and by 1788 it
> supplied half the world's coffee.[34] The conditions that the slaves
> worked in on coffee plantations were a factor in the soon to follow
> Haitian Revolution. The coffee industry never fully recovered
> there.[35] It made a brief come-back in 1949 when Haiti was the
> world's 3rd largest coffee exporter, but fell quickly into rapid
> decline.[36]
>
> Coffee was first discovered in Ethiopia; legend has it that a goatherd
> found his goats eating some strange berries that made them so lively
> that he could not catch them. The substance had made its way to the
> Arab Nation by the 15th century, and in 1511 the first Islamic ban on
> coffee, by the governor of Mecca, shut down all the coffee houses. But
> his superior, the sultan of Cairo, soon stepped in and overruled the
> governor.
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