Yerba mate : the drink that shaped a nation /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | California studies in food and culture ;
79. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- From staple of indigenous life to colonial commodity
- Tool of empire
- Borderland production and the struggle to form an Argentine nation
- Gaucho mythology and the drink of the new Argentines
- Profits and nationalism. the rise of green gold in Argentina's Belle Epoque
- yerba regulation, nationalism, and the fall of Laissez-Faire ideology
- Yerba workers as a symbol of capitalist exploitation
- Modernity, mass politics, and mate's decline
- The rebirth of mate with democracy, economic crisis, and globalization.