A thirst for empire : how tea shaped the modern world /

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"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 ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rappaport, Erika Diane, 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Tea > History.
Tea > Social aspects > History.
Imperialism > Social aspects > History.
History, Modern.
Impérialisme > Aspect social > Histoire.
Histoire moderne et contemporaine.
COOKING > General.
HISTORY / Asia / China
Imperialism > Social aspects.
Tea.
Tea > Social aspects.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : A soldiers' tea party in Surrey
  • Part I. Anxious relations. "A China drink approved by all physicians" : setting the early modern tea table
  • The temperance tea party : making a sober consumer culture in the nineteenth century
  • A little opium, sweet words, and cheap guns : planting a global industry in Assam
  • Packaging China : advertising food safety in a global marketplace
  • Part II. Imperial tastes. Industry and empire : manufacturing imperial tastes in Victorian Britain
  • The planter abroad : building foreign markets in the fin de siècle
  • "Every kitchen an empire kitchen" : the politics of imperial consumerism
  • "Tea revives the world" : selling vitality during the Depression
  • "Hot drinks means much in the jungle" : tea in the service of war
  • Part III. Aftertastes. Leftovers? : an imperial industry at the end of empire
  • "Join the tea set" : youth, modernity, and the legacies of empire during the swinging sixties.

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