Yerba Mate: The Drink That Shaped a Nation Volume 79 (Hardcover)

Contents

Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

1 • From Indigenous Staple to Colonial Commodity 
2 • Tool of Empire 
3 • Borderland Production and the Struggle to Form an Argentine Nation 
4 • Gaucho Mythology and the Drink of the New Argentines 
5 • Profits and Nationalism: The Rise of Green Gold in Argentina’s Belle Epoque 
6 • Yerba Regulation, Nationalism, and the Fall of Laissez-Faire Ideology 
7 • Yerba Workers as a Symbol of Capitalist Exploitation 
8 • Modernity, Mass Politics, and Mate’s Decline 
9 • The Rebirth of Mate with Democracy, Economic Crisis, and Globalization 

Afterword 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index