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Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug by Augustine Sedgewick is a work of narrative nonfiction that combines commodity history, labor history, economic history, and political analysis. Its central subject is coffee, but its larger purpose is to explain how an ordinary daily beverage became tied to modern capitalism, workplace discipline, global trade, and rural inequality. Sedgewick organizes much of the story around James Hill, an Englishman who built a major coffee enterprise in El Salvador after arriving in Central America in the late nineteenth century. Through Hill and the plantations he developed, the book examines how industrial methods were applied to agriculture, how labor was secured under coercive conditions, and how coffee moved from tropical highlands into United States kitchens, offices, supermarkets, and cafes. The result is not a simple history of consumption, but a study of the human systems that made coffee cheap, available, and socially indispensable.