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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Markman Ellis; Richard Coulton; Matthew Mauger |
ISBN: | 9781780238982 1780238983 9781780234403 1780234406 |
OCLC Number: | 1004762985 |
Description: | 326 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Early European encounters with tea -- Establishing the taste for tea in Britain -- The tea trade with China -- The elevation of tea -- The natural philosophy of tea -- The market for tea in Britian -- The British way of tea -- Smuggling and taxation -- The democratization of tea drinking -- Tea in the politics of empire -- The national drink of Victorian Britain -- Twentieth-century tea -- Epilogue: global tea. |
Responsibility: | Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger. |
Abstract:
Based on extensive original research, and now available in paperback, Empire of Tea provides a rich cultural history that explores how the British `way of tea' became the norm across the Anglophone world.
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`A stimulating and attractively illustrated history' - History Today; `For those tempted to begin the tale of British tea-drinking with the Opium Wars, or with the establishment of Indian tea plantations, this book offers a richly textured history of the "empire" that preceded, and long outgrew, those events.' - Times Literary Supplement Read more...

