COFFEE IS NOT FOREVER: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE COFFEE LEAF RUST
Book ID/图书代码： 09894520C00001
English Summary/英文概要： The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foundations. In Coffee Is Not Forever, Stuart McCook explores the transnational story of this essential crop through a history of one of its most devastating diseases, the coffee leaf rust. He deftly synthesizes agricultural, social, and economic histories with plant genetics and plant pathology to investigate the increasing interdependence of the world’s coffee-producing zones. In the process, he illuminates the progress and prognosis of the challenges—especially climate change—that pose an existential threat to a crop that global consumers often take for granted. And finally, in putting a tropical plant disease at the forefront, he has crafted the first truly global environmental history of coffee, pushing its study and the discipline in bold new directions.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 全球咖啡产业是世界各地农民、企业家和消费者赖以生存的支柱，它建立在脆弱的生态基础之上。在《咖啡不是永恒》一书中，斯图尔特•麦考克通过咖啡叶锈病的历史，探索了这种重要作物的跨国发展史。他巧妙地将农业、社会和经济历史与植物遗传学和植物病理学结合起来，研究世界咖啡产区之间日益增长的相互依存关系。在这个过程中，他阐明了各种挑战(尤其是气候变化)的进展和预测，这些挑战对作物的生存构成了威胁，而全球消费者往往认为这种威胁是理所当然的。最后，他把热带植物病害放在了最重要的位置，创造了第一部真正意义上的咖啡全球环境史，将咖啡研究和这门学科推向了大胆的新方向。（WYL)
Awards/获奖情况：“麦考可在科学史、全球史和商品研究这些通常互不交叉的相关领域做出了重要贡献。他决定把重点放在植物病害科学以及与之相关的政治和制度上，这对人类中心主义是一个可喜的挑战，而人类中心主义常常主导着历史研究。由于惊人的研究和探究的广度，这是一个丰富和原创的工作。”——史蒂芬•托皮克，《转变的全球市场: 1870-1945》(与艾伦•威尔斯合著)的作者
“《咖啡不是永恒的》是一流的学术研究，它提供了一种罕见的泛热带分析，研究非洲、亚洲和拉丁美洲咖啡地区的人、植物和病原体之间的相互作用。这本书不仅对咖啡感兴趣，而且对更广泛的环境和商品历史感兴趣的读者将具有巨大的价值。就像所有伟大的跨国历史一样，它既有联系又有比较。对于拿铁的一代来说，这本书可能会永远改变他们对罗布斯塔咖啡的看法。”——约翰•索鲁里《香蕉文化: 洪都拉斯和美国的农业、消费和环境变化》一书的作者
“McCook makes crucial contributions to a number of related fields that usually don’t intersect: history of science, global history, and commodity studies. His decision to focus on the science of plant disease and the politics and institutions related results in a welcome challenge to the anthropocentrism that too often dominates the study of history. With stunning breadth of research and inquiry, this is a rich and original work.”—Steven C. Topik, author (with Allen Wells) of Global Markets Transformed: 1870–1945
“Coffee Is Not Forever is top-notch scholarship that provides a rare pan-tropical analysis of the interactions of people, plants, and pathogens in the coffee regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This book will be of immense value to readers interested not only in coffee, but also environmental and commodity histories more broadly. Like all great transnational histories, it is both connected and comparative. And for the latte generation, this book may forever change the way they think about robusta coffee.”—John Soluri, author of Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
About the Author/作者介绍： 斯图尔特•麦考特是圭尔夫大学的历史学教授。他的研究重点是热带作物和商品的环境历史。他也是《自然状态: 1760-1940西班牙加勒比的科学、农业和环境》一书的作者。
Stuart McCook is professor of history at the University of Guelph. His research focuses on the environmental history of tropical crops and commodities. He is also the author of States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760–1940.
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