HIST 482 Global History of Coffee

3 credits · History and Classical Studies · Faculty of Arts · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

The history of coffee and coffeehouses from the discovery of coffee in the late medieval Ottoman empire until the present day. Topics include the putative 'golden age' of coffeehouse culture in the early modern era, the transformations of the coffeehouse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, th…

Prerequisites

Any 300-level history course or permission of instructor.

Restrictions

Not open to students who have taken HIST 436 when topic was "Cafes and Coffeehouses".

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