A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World

How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerism Tea has...
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Author: Erika Rappaport
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A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World by Rappaport, Erika

A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World

$75.35

A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World

$75.35
Author: Erika Rappaport
Format: Paperback
Language: English

How 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
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 03/05/2019
Pages: 568
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780691192703

About the Author
Erika 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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