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A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780691192703)
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xHow the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerism
Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For 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 an 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. An expansive and original global history of imperial tea, A Thirst for Empire demonstrates the ways that this powerful enterprise helped shape the contemporary world.Author: Erika Rappaport
ISBN-10: 0691192707
ISBN-13: 9780691192703
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2019
Pages: 568
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.60d
By Erika Rappaport
xErika Rappaport is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Shopping for Pleasure (Princeton) and coeditor of Consuming Behaviors (Bloomsbury).
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