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Eating the empire : food and society in eighteenth -century Britain /

When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco, Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea or a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware of the mechanisms of imperial rule and trade that made such goods readily available? In Eating the Empire, Troy Bickham unfolds...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bickham, Troy O. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Imprint Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Encountering, Acquiring and Peddling
  • 1: The Empire's Bounty
  • 2: The New British Consumer
  • 3: Advertising and Imperialism
  • Part II: Defining, Reproducing and Debating
  • 4: Defining a British Cuisine
  • 5: An Edible Map of Mankind
  • 6: The Politics of Food
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Selected Sources
  • Acknowledgements
  • Photo Acknowledgements
  • Index