HIST 150: Coffee and Modernity (Spring 2024)

Questions:

• How can your food item or dietary liquid be used as a lens to think about change over time?
• How has its discovery/development/diffusion generated or made visible broader social, political, and cultural changes?
• How does it reveal the interconnectedness and interdependence of the world in the past and today.

Proposed topics:

• soybean,
• potato,
• avocado,
• pineapple,
• sugar,
• chocolate,
• opium,
• wheat beer,
• soft drinks,
• peanut,
• energy drinks,
• corn,
• wine,
• maple syrup 

Additional terms you might search with your topic:

• "social aspects"
• cultural
• political
• economic

Pay attention to the subjects & terms being used by other scholars writing about your topic.