The book of yerba mate a stimulating history
"Brewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba mate gives its drinkers the jolt of liquid effervescence many of us get from coffee or tea. In Argentina, southern “gaúcho” Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, mate is the stimulating brew of choice,...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
[2024]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. Origin stories. 1. Ilex in the Americas and Indigenous beginnings
- 2. Jesuit conspiracies, colonial jealousies
- Part II. Remaking the world of mate. 3. South American cowboys and nineteenth-century wars for independence
- 4. Botanical imperialism and the race for plant knowledge
- 5. New ventures in green gold
- Part III. Mate culture goes global. 6. Mate in the Middle East: fatwas and finger puppets
- 7. The new postindustrial hipster mate
- Epilogue
