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Erika Rappaport - A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World - 9780691167114 - V9780691167114
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A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World

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Description for A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World Hardback. Num Pages: 568 pages, 53 halftones. 7 tables. 3 maps. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 53.
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. Over 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 a vast and 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 and in the process created ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
568
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691167114
SKU
V9780691167114
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Erika Rappaport
Erika Rappaport is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End (Princeton) and coeditor of Consuming Behaviors: Identities, Politics and Pleasure in Twentieth Century Britain (Bloomsbury).

Reviews for A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World
The book moves from the coffeehouses of London to the muggy plantations of Assam to the advertising firms of Madison Avenue, revealing the technologies and marketing techniques that were instrumental in achieving tea's global popularity. Along the way, Rappaport touches on the temperance movement, commodity chains, Americans' famous dislike of tea, and the sociocultural sphere inhabited by the planter class ... Read more

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