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A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World Paperback – March 5, 2019

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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 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.

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    568 pages
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    Princeton University Press
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    March 5, 2019
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 1.5 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0691192707
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0691192703
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"Winner of a 2018 Gourmand World Cookbook Award, U.S. National Winner in “Tea”"

"Winner of the 2018 PCCBS Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies"

"Co-Winner of the 2018 ASFS Book Award, Association for the Study of Food and Society"

"Winner of the 2018 Jerry Bentley Prize in World History, American Historical Association"

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“Rappaport tells with authority how tea and the culture of tea drinking has influenced the greater history of the British Empire and the British-influenced world beyond. . . . [Her] description of the ways in which tea has been marketed over the years is entirely absorbing.”―Simon Winchester, New York Times Book Review

“Meticulously researched, the book showcases materials from archives scattered across the globe to illustrate how one product’s flow across borders was knitting the world together long before the term ‘globalization’ was coined. . . . Rappaport’s book is one of relevance to us all.”―Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Wall Street Journal

“The book moves from the coffeehouses of London to the muggy plantations of Assam to the advertising firms of Madison Avenue. . . . Exhaustively researched and winningly recounted.”―Publishers Weekly

“A sweeping and richly detailed history of tea.”―Pietra Rivoli, Financial Times

“This detailed work provides interesting explorations of the health-giving powers attributed to tea, and how it came to be seen as a wholesome and vital drink.”―Katrina Gulliver, Spectator

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Princeton University Press; Reprint edition (March 5, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 568 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0691192707
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0691192703
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 out of 5 stars 45 ratings

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  • Sandra Dawson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended!!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2017
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    This is a great book for many reasons--well written, far reaching and really important to the history of globalization!! Highly recommended with fantastic illustrations!
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  • Stephanie Wheeler
    5.0 out of 5 stars Will change the way you view tea forever.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2017
    This book is an amazing account of how tea shaped the world. It is one of those rare gems where cultural history meets economic history and the result is fantastic. It will cause you to consider and remember things from your family, childhood, and present life that revolve around different kinds of tea why you put the milk in before the tea or if putting milk into tea is the correct way to drink it. Rappaport proves beyond a doubt that the way we consume tea in various parts of the world was shaped by a variety of factors and if you live in the American south, she tells you a lot about why ice tea/sweet tea is popular in your neck of the woods.
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  • fanofhistory
    4.0 out of 5 stars Academic, dense, but fascinating and readable
    Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2019
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    This is definitely an academic-audience book. The prose and argument can be a little dense at times, but the overall topic is fascinating and the author provides a compelling argument and highly detailed narrative. That something so simple as tea can change the world so profoundly is staggering.

    Probably not suitable to the average casual history enthusiast, unless you are already particularly interested and well-read in the history of the British Empire.
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  • LouV
    2.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating topic made boring
    Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2021
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    I was really looking forward to reading this, but turgid and boring are the only words to describe it. It could have been a great read for tea-lovers everywhere: all of the facts are there, but no flavor.
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  • STM1
    3.0 out of 5 stars Need a strong cupcake to get through reading this !
    Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2022
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    Well researched. Quite heavy going with the small font.
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  • Fletcher Free Library/Acquistions
    3.0 out of 5 stars The Font Was Too Small To Be Able To Read Comfortably
    Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2017
    This book looked like it could have been very interesting, but other than it being just a little too scholarly for my taste, the print was too small to comfortably be able to read. I've seen a number of books that were ruined, because of the typeface being too small, and I can't understand why it is done.
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