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A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World

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Availability:In StockContributor:Erika RappaportPublish date:2019-03-05Pages:568
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691192703ISBN-10:691192707UPC:9780691192703Book Category:History, CookingBook Subcategory:World, Beverages, Social HistoryBook Topic:Coffee & TeaSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.60 inchesWeight:2.0525Product ID:SCP4GK2FST

How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerism

Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes--in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies--the effects of which are with us even today. A Thirst for Empire takes an in-depth historical look at how men and women--through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa--transformed global tastes and habits. An expansive and original global history of imperial tea, A Thirst for Empire demonstrates the ways that this powerful enterprise helped shape the contemporary world.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691192703ISBN-10:691192707UPC:9780691192703Book Category:History, CookingBook Subcategory:World, Beverages, Social HistoryBook Topic:Coffee & TeaSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.60 inchesWeight:2.0525Product ID:SCP4GK2FST
Erika Rappaport is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Shopping for Pleasure (Princeton) and coeditor of Consuming Behaviors (Bloomsbury).
Publisher: Princeton University Press

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