Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world a�" one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism, the leading source of the worlda�TMs most popular drug, and perhaps the most widespread word on the planet. Augustine Sedgewicka�TMs Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffeea�TMs five-hundred-year transformation from a mysterious Muslim ritual into an everyday necessity. Sedgewick reveals how coffee bred vast wealth and hard poverty, at once connecting and dividing the modern world.