A thirst for empire : how tea shaped the modern world / Erika Rappaport.
A thirst for empire : how tea shaped the modern world / Erika Rappaport.
A thirst for empire : how tea shaped the modern world / Erika Rappaport.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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G 2017/4720
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English
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xiv, 549 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Introduction: A soldiers' tea party in Surrey -- Part I. Anxious relations -- "A China drink approved by all physicians" : setting the early modern tea table -- The temperance tea table : making a sober consumer culture in the nineteenth century -- "A little opium, sweet words, and cheap guns" : pla...
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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New Jersey
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[2017]
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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 a...
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A thirst for empire : how tea shaped the modern world / Erika Rappaport.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/4720
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74VKVrWwpjOM
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0691167117 hardcover ; acid-free paper
9780691167114 hardcover ; acid-free paper
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641.3372
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991024124717902626
