HIST 482. Global History of Coffee.
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HIST 482
Global History of Coffee.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The history of coffee and coffeehouses from the discovery of coffee in the late medieval Ottoman empire until the present day. Topics include the putative 'golden age' of coffeehouse culture in the early modern era, the transformations of the coffeehouse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the development of a modern consumer society, and forms of public association and communication often described as the bourgeois public sphere.
- Prerequisite(s): Any 300-level history course or permission of instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken HIST 436 when topic was "Cafes and Coffeehouses".
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