Chapter Seven. Moving Coffee from the Forests of Colonial Angola to the Breakfast Tables of Main Street America, 1940–1961

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Writing the Transnational History of Knowledge Flows in a Global Age 1
4. Chapter One. Knowledge, State Power, and the Invention of International Science 31
5. Part I Regulating Transnational Knowledge Flows
6. Chapter Two. Harnessing Invention The British Admiralty and the Political Economy of Knowledge in the World War I Era 75
7. Chapter Three. Culture Diplomacy Penicillin and the Problem of Anglo-American Knowledge Sharing in World War II 103
8. Chapter Four. Dangerous Calculations: The Origins of the US High-Performance Computer Export Safeguards Regime, 1968–1974 149
9. Chapter Five. Regulating the Transnational Flow of Intangible Knowledge of Space Launchers between the United States and China in the Clinton Era 173
10. Part II Facilitating Transnational Knowledge Flows
11. Chapter Six. Beyond Borlaug’s Shadow: Mexican Seeds and the Narratives of the Green Revolution 199
12. Chapter Seven. Moving Coffee from the Forests of Colonial Angola to the Breakfast Tables of Main Street America, 1940–1961 231
13. Chapter Eight. Statistics and Emancipation from New Deal America to Guerrilla Warfare in Guinea-Bissau 253
14. Chapter Nine. Security versus Sovereignty in a Palestinian Seed Bank 275
15. Chapter Ten. How Data Cross Borders: Globalizing Plant Knowledge through Transnational Data Management and Its Epistemic Economy 305
16. Conclusion: Decentering the Global North 333
17. Acknowledgments 345
18. Contributors 347
19. Index 351