The Coffee Trader
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
The Coffee Trader
| Author | David Liss |
|---|---|
| Published | 2003 |
| Pages | 411 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Liss’s novel of 1659 Amsterdam, in which a Portuguese-Jewish commodities trader tries to corner a market in a drink nobody in Europe has heard of — set in the same exchange Joseph de la Vega would write about thirty years later. A novel rather than a history, which is worth knowing before picking it up. |
Where I heard about it
- @typesfast’s thread — a reply to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” in the thread, June 2025. The full list of replies lives on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Capital Allocation — the portfolio idea this sits closest to.
- Confusión de Confusiones — de la Vega’s 1688 account of the same exchange, also on this list.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.