Coffee life in Japan / Merry White.
Coffee life in Japan / Merry White.
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Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
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N641.3373/12
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Language
English
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Physical content
xi, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Coffee in public : cafes in urban Japan -- Japan's cafes : coffee and the counter-intuitive -- Modernity and the passion factory -- Masters of their universes : performing perfection -- Japan's liquid power -- Making coffee Japanese : taste in the contemporary cafe -- Urban public culture : third sp...
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Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
c2012.
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Summary
"Traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White's book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have...
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Coffee life in Japan / Merry White.
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California studies in food and culture ; 36.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-204) and index.
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Date Copyright
c2012.
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N641.3373/12
Record Identifier
74VvGzzv4vE3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvGzzv4vE3
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ISBN
0520271157 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520259331 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520259335 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520271159 (pbk. : alk. paper)
DDC
641.33730952
MMS ID
991012585899702626
