{"product_id":"tea-war-andrew-b-liu-9780300243734","title":"Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India","description":"\u003cb\u003eA history of capitalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTea War\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it also intervenes in larger debates about the nature of capitalism, global modernity, and global history.\"-- Alexander F. Day, Occidental College\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Tea remains the world's most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical \"divergence\" between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. He shows how competitive pressures compelled Chinese merchants to adopt abstract industrial conceptions of time, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of political economy adopted by Chinese and Indian nationalists, who discovered that these abstract ideas corresponded to concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together, these stories point toward a more flexible and globally oriented conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew B. Liu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300243731\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300243734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.50w x 1.20d","brand":"Andrew B. Liu","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43940957389055,"sku":"9780300243734","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3ea12c8e-b2b8-436d-a873-03c76fe34822.jpg?v=1681450108","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tea-war-andrew-b-liu-9780300243734","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}