Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765-1914

Cocoa & Chocolate , charts the economic consequences of the addition of chocolate to Western diets, and the consequent boom in cocoa sales, over 150 years. While the cocoa boom might have been expected to transform the economic conditions of the cocoa producers from rural poverty into prosperity, it somehow failed to achieve this. This pioneering study examines all aspects of the history of cocoa and chocolate and the effect of these commodities globally. William Gervase Clarence-Smith looks at the effects of increased production of cocoa on the environment and on land distribution, at the coercion of labour to work the plantations, at the manufacture of chocolate, at taxation and at consumption.Clarence-Smith, William Gervase is the author of 'Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765-1914' with ISBN 9780415215763 and ISBN 0415215765.