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The Trouble with Tea. The Politics of Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Global Economy.
Jane T. Merritt
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This fascinating look at the unpredictable path of a single commodity will change the way readers look at both tea and the emergence of America. Series: Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16, 11 black & white illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; KCP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Americans imagined tea as central to their revolution. After years of colonial boycotts against the commodity, the Sons of Liberty kindled the fire of independence when they dumped tea in the Boston harbor in 1773. To reject tea as a consumer item and symbol of "taxation without representation" was to reject Great Britain as master of the American economy and government. But tea played a longer and far more complicated role in American economic history than the events at Boston suggest. In The Trouble with Tea, historian Jane T. Merritt explores tea as a central component of eighteenth-century ... Read more
Americans imagined tea as central to their revolution. After years of colonial boycotts against the commodity, the Sons of Liberty kindled the fire of independence when they dumped tea in the Boston harbor in 1773. To reject tea as a consumer item and symbol of "taxation without representation" was to reject Great Britain as master of the American economy and government. But tea played a longer and far more complicated role in American economic history than the events at Boston suggest. In The Trouble with Tea, historian Jane T. Merritt explores tea as a central component of eighteenth-century ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Number of Pages
224
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421421520
SKU
V9781421421520
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About Jane T. Merritt
Jane T. Merritt is an associate professor of history at Old Dominion University. She is the author of At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763.
Reviews for The Trouble with Tea. The Politics of Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Global Economy.
Jane T. Merritt provides a compelling analysis of the economic, social, and political consequences of tea consumption in the American colonies during the eighteenth century. —Economic History Review This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the powerful global context of the American Revolution and of late-eighteenthcentury American commercial ambitions and achievements. —American Historical Review Students at all ... Read more