Yerba mate : the drink that shaped a nation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sarreal, Julia J. S. (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
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.