A Thirst For Empire

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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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Genre : Cooking
Author : Erika Rappaport
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release : 2019-03-05
File : 568 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780691192703


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Genre : France
Author : lady Catherine Hannah Charlotte Jackson
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Release : 1881
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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

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Genre : Byzantine Empire
Author : Edward Gibbon
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Release : 1884
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Genre : Russia
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History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

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Author : Edward Gibbon
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Release : 1873
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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon

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Release : 1878
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Genre : Macedonia
Author : Arthur Mapletoft Curteis
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Release : 1887
File : 258 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSC:32106000375268


Rise Of The Macedonian Empire

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Genre : Macedonia
Author : Arthur Mapletoft Curteis
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Release : 1886
File : 258 Pages
ISBN-13 : WISC:89085158723


The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

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Genre : Byzantine Empire
Author : Edward Gibbon
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Release : 1914
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ISBN-13 : UCSD:31822017313552


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Genre : Austria
Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
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Release : 1882
File : 582 Pages
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