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Thirst for Empire, A: How Tea Shaped the Modern World

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Thirst for Empire, A: How Tea Shaped the Modern World

SKU: 9780691192703 Category: Product ID: 205354

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Title: Thirst for Empire, A: How Tea Shaped the Modern World
Author: RAPPAPORT ERIKA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/01/2019
Imprint: PRINCETON UNI PRESS
Price: $57.00
Publishing status: Active

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. 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.

ISBN: 9780691192703
Pages: 568