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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London, UK :
Reaktion Books,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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