A thirst for empire : how tea shaped the modern world

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Label

A thirst for empire : how tea shaped the modern world

Title remainder

how tea shaped the modern world

Statement of responsibility

Erika Rappaport

Creator

• trueRappaport, Erika Diane, 1963-

Author

• trueRappaport, Erika Diane, 1963-

Subject

• trueBeverages
• Imperialism -- Social aspects | History
• trueEast and West
• trueTea -- History
• trueTea industry and trade -- History
• History, Modern
• trueFood writing -- History and microhistory
• trueModern history
• trueHistory Writing -- Microhistory
• trueBeverage industry and trade
• trueGreat Britain -- Colonies | History
• trueImperialism

Genre

• trueFood writing
• trueHistory Writing

Language

eng

Summary

"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 and in the process created our modern consumer society. As Erika Rappaport shows, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries the boundaries of the tea industry and the British Empire overlapped but were never identical, and she highlights the economic, political, and cultural forces that enabled the British Empire to dominate--but never entirely control--the worldwide production, trade, and consumption of tea. Rappaport delves into how Europeans adopted, appropriated, and altered Chinese tea culture to build a widespread demand for tea in Britain and other global markets and a plantation-based economy in South Asia and Africa. Tea was among the earliest colonial industries in which merchants, planters, promoters, and retailers used imperial resources to pay for global advertising and political lobbying. The commercial model that tea inspired still exists and is vital for understanding how politics and publicity influence the international economy..."--Dust jacket

Storyline

• trueSweeping

Writing style

• trueRichly detailed

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

941.08

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult