History Seminar

Coffee, Sugar and Other Addictive Substances

PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Notes

This bibliography is partial and very idiosyncratic. You must conduct your own bibliographic search to find works appropriate to your project. The sources included below are in English (with a few exceptions). If you can work in a language other than English, your available source is much richer; I encourage you to take advantage of that possibility.

The format of this bibliography is very informal. You cannot use it as a guide to the bibliography of your papers. For your papers, you will need full bibliographic citations, properly formatted. See Turabian, A Guide for Writers of Term Papers, or other writing manuals.

I have not indicated whether these are primary or secondary sources. You should make that determination, based on how you use your sources. (See Storey, Writing History.) If you remain in doubt, see me – bringing the sources with you.

Most of the sources that I have indicated are printed documents. Remember that other media, such as photographs videos (for modern topics) and other art forms, can serve some purposes very well. Following these Notes and General Sources of this partial bibliography, you will find sections organized by some of the most commonly recognized addictive substances that we study in this seminar: coffee, chocolate, coca/cocaine, opium, sugar, tea, and tobacco.

General Sources

International organizations, individual countries and trade organizations publish wide ranging statistics on production, trade (export and import), consumption and prices. Some of these data series cover long time spans. You can use them for papers on economic history, to trace the increasing usage of products, or other topics.

Governments often regulated addictive substances, through trade regulations, production and quality standards, taxation. Government debates, reprinted in official publication, on these issues can provide an interesting insight on their acceptability. (For example, changing tax rates on cigarettes may signal an increasing official discouragement of smoking or on public health policies. Or, studying the debate about health warnings required on cigarette packages may provide similar information.)

Local newspapers and popular journals offer an avenue to consider the ways in which the public perceived substances over time. They are also useful for tracing public policy debates. In addition to looking for articles on specific substances, you can use advertisements (their nature, frequency, etc.) for this purpose. Academic journals – such as medical journals – may provide useful historical perspectives for topics that impinge upon the history of science and scientific thought.

Many personal accounts – such as farm and plantation account books, personal diaries and travel memoirs can provide especially rich insight into cultural and personal features of life related to these substances.

Also published bibliographies, organized by topic or country, appearing as "stand-alone" reference publications or as journal articles may direct you to additional sources.

You may want to try web-based research. Sites offering historical documents, etc. are available. If you are working on a topic situated in very recent history, the web may also serve as primary research. Sites may also serve as a gateway to more material – such as http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer offering a path to research on illegal drug use and policy. If you use these sources, you must document them properly (as noted in standard reference material on citations) and you must provide verification of the information you find. (Verification is especially important if you draw from "activist" sites – those promoting specific actions and policies.)

Coffee

Alegría, Ricardo; El Tema del café en la literatura puertorriqueńa .

Berquist, Charles; Coffee and conflict in Colombia, 1886-1910, 1978.

Black harvest [videorecording] / Arundel Producations ; produced and directed by Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly.Physical descrip: 1 videocassette (90 min.)  Abstract: Features a joint business venture between Joe Leahy, a wealthy mixed-race coffee plantation owner, and the Ganiga, an aboriginal tribe in Papua New Guinea. When world coffee prices collapse, the workers' wages are drastically reduced and this leads to tribal warfare.

Bossio, Jorge Alberto; Los cafés de Buenos Aires, 1968.

Bramah, E.; Tea & coffee: a modern view of three hundred years of tradition 1972.

Burns, B.E.; Eadweard Muybridge in Guatemala, 1875 : the photographer as social recorder  photographs by Eadweard J. Muybridge.

Cambranes, J.C.; [Uniform title: Café y campesinos en Guatemala, 1853-1897. English Title:] Coffee and peasants : the origins of the modern plantation economy in Guatemala, 1853-1897; [English version revised by Carla Clason-Höök].

Dambaugh, Luella Nolen; The coffee frontier in Brazil.

Ellis, Aytoun; The penny universities; a history of the coffee-houses. 1956.

Illy, Francesco; The book of coffee : a gourmet's guide.

Jacob, Henrich, Eduard; [Uniform title: Sage und siegeszug des kaffes. English Title:] Coffee; the epic of a commodity.

Lauria-Santiago, Aldo; An agrarian republic : commercial agriculture and the politics of peasant communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914.

Lemaire, Gérard Georges; Les cafés littéraires.

Lillywhite, Bryant;  London coffee houses; a reference book of coffee houses of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.

Lucier, Richard; The political economy of coffee: from Juan Valdez to Yank's diner.

Palacios, Marco; Coffee in Columbia, 1850-1970 : an economic, social, and political history, 1980.

Pendergrast, M; Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed our World 1999. [in Library yet?]

Robinson, Edward Forbes; The early English coffee house; with an account of the first use of coffee.

Roseberry, et.al (eds); Coffee, society, and power in Latin America.

Schebera. Jurgen; Damals im Romanischen Café : Kúnstler und ihre Lokale im Berlin der zwanziger Jahre.

Svicarovich,  et. al.; The coffee book : a connoisseur's guide to gourmet coffee; c1976

Uribe Compuzano, A.; Brown gold : the amazing story of coffee; 1954.

Weatherstone, J. ; The pioneers, 1825-1900 : the early British tea and coffee planters and their way of life; 1986.

Wickizer, V.D.; Coffee, tea, and cocoa; 1951..

Chocolate

Clarence-Smith; Cocoa pioneer fronts since 1800 : the role of smallholders, planters and merchants; 1996.

Coe; The true history of chocolate; 1996.

Fitzgerald;  Rowntree and the marketing revolution, 1862-1969; 1995.

Rinzler; The book of chocolate; c1977.

Szogyi (editor); Chocolate : food of the gods; 1997.

Wickizer;  Coffee, tea, and cocoa [1951].

Coca/Cocaine

Flynn; Cocaine : an in-depth look at the facts, science, history and future of the world's most addictive drug; c1991

Gagliano; Coca prohibition in Peru : the historical debates; c1994.

Gootenberg, Paul. (ed.) Cocaine: Global Histories. 1999.

Grinspoon; Cocaine: a drug and its social evolution; 1976.

MacGregor, Felipe E. (ed.); Coca and cocaine : an Andean perspective; 1993.

Mermelstein, Max; The man who made it snow (Max Mermelstein as told to Robin Moore and Richard Smitten)  1990.

Mortimer;  Peru. History of coca, "the divine plant" of the Incas;  1901.

Phillips & Wynne; Cocaine, the mystique and the reality; c1980.

Porter, B.; Blow : how a smalltown boy made $100 million with the Medellín cocaine cartel and lost it all 1993.

Woodley; Dealer: portrait of a cocaine merchant; 1971.

Opium

Booth, M.; Opium: A History St. Martin's Press;1998.

De Quincey, T.; Confessions of an English Opium Eater 1822 [1989].

Commissioner Lin’s Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria (1839)

Gavit, J.C.; Opium  [Opium Conference - 1925].

Great Britain;  Royal commission on Opium, Final Report, 1895.

Hayter, A.; Opium and the Romantic Imagination.

Rush, J.R.; Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterpris in Colonial Indonesia: 1860-1910 Cornell UP 1990.

Straits Settlements & Federated Malay States; Proceedings of the Commission Appointed to Inquire on Matters Relating to the use of Opium in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States [1908].

US Bureau of Insular Affairs; Report of the Committee Appointed by the Philippine Commission to Investigate the Use of Opium and the Traffic Therein [1905].

Sugar

Adamson, Alan H; Sugar without slaves; the political economy of British Guiana, 1838-1904; 1972.

Albert, Bill; An essay on the Peruvian sugar industry, 1880-1922 : and The letters of Ronald Gordon, administrator of the British Sugar Company in the Canete Valley, 1914-1919;  c1976.

Allen, Richard Lamb; The American farm book : or, Compend of American agriculture; being a practical treatise on soils, manures, draining, irrigation, grasses, grain, roots, fruits, cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, rice, and every staple porduct of the United States, with the best methods of planting, cultivating, and preparation for market; 1851.

Atkins, Edwin Farnsworth; Sixty years in Cuba; 1980 [c1926].

Boston College, Boston, Mass. College of Business Administration.; New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, inc.; its role in the marketing of sugar; 1965.

Browne, Charles Albert, jr.; A handbook of sugar analysis: a practical and descriptive treatise for use in research, technical and control laboratories; 1912.

Caribbeana; Containing letters and dissertations, together with poetical essays, on various subjects and occasions; chiefly wrote by several hands in the West-Indies ... Now collected together in two volumes. Wherein are also comprised, divers papers relating to trade, government, and laws in general; but more especially, to those of the British sugar-colonies, and of Barbados in particular ... To which are added in an appendix, some pieces never before published. Nov. 20, 1731-Dec. 16, 1738; 1741.
Fox, William; An address to the people of Great Britain, on the propriety of abstaining from West India sugar and rum; 1791.

Gébler, Carlo; Driving through Cuba : rare encounters in the land of sugar cane and revolution; 1988.

Glasse, Hannah; The compleat confectioner: or, The whole art of confectionary made plain and easy. Shewing, the various methods of preserving and candying, both dry and liquid, all kinds of fruit, flowers and herbs; the different ways of clarifying sugar; and the method of keeping fruit, nuts, and flowers fresh and fine all the year round ... Likewise the art of making artificial fruit, with the stalks in it, so as to resemble the natural fruit. To which are added, some bills of fare for deserts for private families; 1750.
Graves, Adrian; Cane and labour : the political economy of the Queensland sugar industry, 1862-1906 c1993.

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons; Debate upon the sugar duties ; in the House of Commons, on Monday, 14th of June, 1830.

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons; Debate upon the sugar duties, in the House of Commons, on Monday, the 21st of June, 1830.
Guerra y Sánchez, Ramiro; Sugar and society in the Caribbean; an economic history of Cuban agriculture.
Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, Experiment Station; Hawaiian planters' record.

Ingersoll, Thomas; Mammon and Manon in early New Orleans : the first slave society in the Deep South, 1718-1819; 1999.

Lemoine, Maurice; [Uniform title: Sucre amer. English Title:] Bitter sugar : slaves today in the Caribbean; photographic reportage by the author; 1985.

Look Lai, Walton; Indentured labor, Caribbean sugar : Chinese and Indian migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918; c1993.

Manila, Philippines; Institute of Labor and Manpower Studies, Ministry of Labor and Employment; The Sugar workers : two studies  [1977?].

Mazumdar, Sucheta; Sugar and society in China : peasants, technology, and the world market; 1998.

Mullins, J.S.; The sugar trust : Henry O. Havemeyer and the American Sugar Refining Company.

National Sugar Refining Co. of N.J.; The story of sugar. 1933.

Nelli, Ricardo; La injusticia cojuda : testimonios de los trabajadores del azúcar del Ingenio Ledesma (Buenos Aires, Argentina); 1988.

Nisbet, Richard;  The capacity of Negroes for religious and moral improvement considered: with cursory hints, to proprietors and to government, for the immediate melioration of the condition of slaves in the sugar colonies: to which are subjoined short and practical discourses to Negroes, on the plain and obvious principles of religion and morality [1970].

No abolition; or, An attempt to prove to the conviction of every rational British subject, that the abolition of the British trade with Africa for Negroes, would be a measure as unjust as impolitic, fatal to the interests of this nation, ruinous to its sugar colonies, and more or less pernicious in its consequences to every description of the people. : In the course of which are inserted important extracts from the report of the right honourable Committee of Privy Council; 1789.

Oritz, Fernando; Cuban counterpoint : tobacco and sugar.

Pares, Richard; A West-India fortune.
Rigby, Edward; Chemical observations on sugar; 1788.

Saifer, P; Detox : a successful & supportive program for freeing your body from the physical and psychological effects of chemical pollutants (at home & at work), junk food additives, sugar, nicotine, drugs, alcohol, caffeine, prescription and nonprescription medications, and other environmental toxins; 1984 .

Short, Thomas; Discourses on tea, sugar, milk, made-wines, spirits, punch, tobacco,&c: with plain and useful rules for gouty people; 1750.
Simón, Brigitte, et. al.; I sold myself, I was bought : a socio-economic analysis based on interviews with sugar-cane harvesters in Santa Cruz de la Sierra; 1980.

Sims, Patsy; Cleveland Benjamin's dead : a struggle for dignity in Louisiana's cane country; photographs by Mitchel L. Osborne.

Swerling, Boris Cyril; International control of sugar; 1949.
The Sugar workers of Negros : a study commissioned by the Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines.  [1976?]

UCLA Asian American Studies Center; Letters in exile : an introductory reader on the history of Pilipinos in America : a project of resource development and publications; c1976.

United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service; Sugar, world markets and trade [microform]; 1994-.

Wilkinson, Alec; Big sugar : seasons in the cane fields of Florida; 1989.

Yudkin, John; Sweet and dangerous; the new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes, and other killers; 1972[?].

Tea

Andrews; The tea burners of Cumberland County who burned a cargo of tea at Greenwich, New Jersey  [reprinted 1974].

Ball, An Account of the Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea in China; 1848 [1980].

Bramah; Tea & coffee: a modern view of three hundred years of tradition. 1972.

Evans; Tea in China : the history of China's national drink 1992.

Tea leaves: being a collection of letters and documents relating to the shipment of tea to the American colonies in the year 1773, by the East India tea company; 1884.

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture; Foreign Agriculture circular; Tea and Spices; 1972.

––; Tea, spices and essential oils; 1908.

Varley & Isao (editors); Tea in Japan : essays on the history of chanoyu; c1989.

Weatherstone, J. ; The pioneers, 1825-1900 : the early British tea and coffee planters and their way of life; 1986.

Willson & Clifford (editors); Tea : cultivation to consumption ; 1991.


Tobacco

Arents; Early literature of tobacco; 1938.

Atkins; A Work for Chimny-sweepers or a warning for Tobacconists [1601].

Baud; Peasants and tobacco in the Dominican Republic, 1870-1930; 1995.

Brooks;  The mighty leaf; tobacco through the centuries.  [1952].

Diehl; Tobacco & your health: the smoking controversy; 1969.

Dunhill; The Gentle Art of Smoking [1954].

Ferguson; The smoker's book of health : how to keep yourself healthier and reduce your smoking risks; 1987.

Garner; The production of tobacco; 1946.

Gold; Comprehensive bibliography of existing literature on tobacco : 1969 to 1974.

Goodman, J.; Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence 1993.

Greenwood; Curiosities of savage life. With woodcuts and designs by Harden S. Melville; engraved by H. Newsom Woods. And coloured illustrations from water-colour drawings by F. W. Keyland R. Huttula; 1864.

James I; Counter-blaste to Tobacco [1604].

Kluger; Ashes to ashes : America's hundred-year cigarette war, the public health, and the unabashed triumph of Philip Morris; 1996.

Leighton; What you should know about tobacco; [c. 1944].

Mackenzie; Sublime Tobacco.

Mussey; An essay on the influence of tobacco upon life and health;1836.

Ortiz Fernández; [Uniform title: Contrapunto cubano del tabaco y el azúcar. English Title:] Cuban counterpoint : tobacco and sugar.

Price; Perry of London : a family and a firm on the seaborne frontier, 1615-1753; 1992.

Sargent; Diary of the Rev. Solomon Spittle; 1847.

Shew; Tobacco : its history, nature, and effects on the body and mind : with the opinions of Dr. Nott ...; c1849.

Tate, C.; Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of 'The Little White Slaver'; Oxford UP 1999.

Tatham; The Culture of Tobacco

Walkington; The optick glasse of humors, or, The touchstone of a golden temperature, or, The philosophers stone to make a golden temper : wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth and their externall intimates laid open to the purblind eye of ignorance itselfe, by which every one may iudge, of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature / by T.W., master of artes; 1639.

West, G.A. Tobacco, Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Indians, Parts I & II; 1934.

William Tatham & the Culture of Tobacco [1799].

Wright, Louis B. (ed.), Letters of Robert Carter, 1720-1727: The Commercial Interests of a Virginia Gentleman  (tobacco commerce).