A Thirst For Empire: How Tea Shaped The Modern World - 9780691167114

Introduction: A soldiers' tea party in Surrey -- Part I. Anxious relations -- "A China drink approved by all physicians" : setting the early modern tea table -- The temperance tea table : making a sober consumer culture in the nineteenth century -- "A little opium, sweet words, and cheap guns" : planting a global industry in Assam -- Packaging China : advertising food safety in a global marketplace -- Part II. Imperial tastes -- Industry and empire : manufacturing imperial tastes in Victorian Britain -- The planter abroad : building foreign markets in the fin-de-siecle -- "Every kitchen an empire kitchen": the politics of imperial consumerism -- "Tea revives the world" : selling vitality during the Depression -- "Hot drinks means much in the jungle" : tea in the service of war -- Part III. Aftertastes -- Leftovers? : an imperial industry at the end of empire -- "Join the tea set" : youth, modernity, and the legacies of empire during the swinging sixties

• | Author: Erika Diane Rappaport
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 05, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 568 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 0691167117
• | ISBN-13: 9780691167114