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The social life of coffee : the emergence of the British coffeehouse /
"What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven [Connecticut] :
Yale University Press,
[2005]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Coffee: from curiosity to commodity. An acquired taste ; Coffee and early modern drug culture ; From Mocha to Java
- Inventing the coffeehouse. Penny universities? ; Exotic fantasies and commercial anxieties
- Civilizing the coffeehouses. Before bureaucracy ; Policing the coffeehouse ; Civilizing society.