pt. 1. Caffeine in history --
1. Coffee : Arabian origins --
2. Tea : Asian origins --
3. Cacao : American origins --
pt. 2. Europe wakes up to caffeine --
4. Monks and men-at-arms : Europe's first caffeine connections --
5. The caffeine trade supplants the spice trade : tea and coffee come to the west --
6. The late adopters : Germany, Russia, and Sweden join in --
7. Judgments of history : medical men debate caffeine --
8. Postscript : why did caffeine come when it came? --
pt. 3. The culture of caffeine --
9. Islands of caffeine (1) : Japan : the tradition of tea, the novelty of coffee --
10. Islands of caffeine (2) : England : caffeine and Empire --
11. The endless simmer : America and the twentieth century do caffeine --
12. Caffeine culture and Le fin de Millénaire --
pt. 4. The natural history of caffeine --
13. Caffeine in the laboratory --
14. Caffeine and the plant kingdom : "My vegetable love" --
pt. 5. Caffeine and health --
15. Caffeine and the body : health effects, reproductive issues, and fitness --
16. Thinking over caffeine : cognition, learning, and emotional well-being --
17. Caffeine dependence, intoxication, and toxicity.
