Please allow me to add Dr. Robert Thurston and Dr.
Sandra Woy-Hazelton to the request for syllabi. I
guess I should check the whole thread before I reply.

Bruce A. Erickson
Le Moyne College

--- David Fahey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> from David M. Fahey
> Miami University (Ohio)
> 
> Here is a description of a course taught at my
> university with history 
> and international studies credit.
> 
> HST/IES F112 First Year Seminar: Coffee and
> Globalization–Past and 
> Present Drink that “Transformed Our World”-- MWF
> 11:00-11:50
> Dr. Robert Thurston and Dr. Sandra Woy-Hazelton
> MP Historical Perspective
> 
> Since the seventeenth century, coffee’s impact
> around the world has 
> been huge. The second-most valuable commodity traded
> legally around the 
> globe today, coffee is an ideal vehicle through
> which to study key 
> aspects of European, American, and non-western
> development. Coffee was 
> one of the first bulk items sought after by
> Europeans, and it was 
> intimately linked to the growth of imperialism and
> unfree labor from 
> Indonesia to Latin America. The history of coffee
> and its use is one of 
> the best examples of globalization’s long, deep
> roots. A close look at 
> commodities like coffee and sugar reveals much about
> the growth of 
> early capitalism and how it depended as much on
> romanticized images of 
> spaces and products as on careful calculations of
> profit and loss.


        	
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