Joint Lecture

Dorothee Wierling

Coffee Worlds:

Global Players and Local Actors in 20th-Century Germany

Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship Lecture

22 October 2013

(1:00 h)

Joint Lecture

Dorothee Wierling

Coffee Worlds:
Global Players and Local Actors in 20th-Century Germany

Coffee, one of the most important global commodities since the late 19th century, has connected very different physical, social, and symbolic worlds. Dorothee Wierling focuses on one group of actors, the coffee merchants, as agents of globalisation. The talk will explore the economic, social, and political frameworks in which those merchants acted.