A thirst for empire : how tea shaped the modern world
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017].
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Published
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017].
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Book
Physical Desc
xiv, 549 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-527) and index.
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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 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 our modern consumer society. As Erika Rappaport shows, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries the boundaries of the tea industry and the British Empire overlapped but were never identical, and she highlights the economic, political, and cultural forces that enabled the British Empire to dominate--but never entirely control--the worldwide production, trade, and consumption of tea. Rappaport delves into how Europeans adopted, appropriated, and altered Chinese tea culture to build a widespread demand for tea in Britain and other global markets and a plantation-based economy in South Asia and Africa. Tea was among the earliest colonial industries in which merchants, planters, promoters, and retailers used imperial resources to pay for global advertising and political lobbying. The commercial model that tea inspired still exists and is vital for understanding how politics and publicity influence the international economy ..."--Jacket.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Rappaport, E. D. (2017). A thirst for empire: how tea shaped the modern world . Princeton University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rappaport, Erika Diane, 1963-. 2017. A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World. Princeton University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rappaport, Erika Diane, 1963-. A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World Princeton University Press, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Rappaport, Erika Diane. A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World Princeton University Press, 2017.
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