A Thirst for Empire

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How Tea Shaped the Modern World

By Erika Rappaport

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A Thirst for Empire explores how the global tea industry shaped the international economy and the rise of mass consumerism. Erika Rappaport offers an in-depth historical analysis of tea's pivotal role in funding wars, fuelling colonisation, and transforming land use, labour systems, and social hierarchies across Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa. This expansive global history reveals how tea influenced global tastes and habits, leaving a lasting impact on the contemporary world.
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Ideal for readers interested in global history, imperialism, economic history, and the cultural significance of consumer goods. Also suitable for those fascinated by the history of tea and its role in shaping modern societies.

How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea 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

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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 colonisation, and its cultivation brought about massive changes—in land use, labour 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.

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Award-winning historical study: Winner of the 2018 Gourmand World Cookbook Award (U.S. National, Tea category), the 2018 PCCBS Book Prize, the 2018 ASFS Book Award (co-winner), and the 2018 Jerry Bentley Prize in World History.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780691192703

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 March 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Princeton University Press

Illustration: 53 b/w illus. 7 tables. 3 maps.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 568

Collections

Asian History Erika Rappaport European History Global History History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

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).