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- catalog abstract "What could be more British than a cup of tea? What has proved more resilient vice in Western life than tobacco? What are the origins of our enthusiasm for spice, smoke, and sugar? James Walvin here illustrates how the tastes of the British people, and ultimately the sensory predilections of the entire West, were profoundly transformed by the fruits of distant empire and trade. Tracing the history of British global trade and the drive for imperial pre-eminence to the rise of a new kind of domestic material consumption, Fruits of Empire devotes chapters to the allure and spread of tea, coffee, tobacco, chocolate, the potato, and sugar, thereby revealing a continuum between the British passion for empire and the contemporary Western passion to consume.".
- catalog contributor b9686068.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Colonies Commerce History.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Commerce History 17th century.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Commerce History 18th century.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Commerce History.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Social life and customs 17th century.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Social life and customs 18th century.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "1. Attractions of the East -- 2. Tea -- 3. Coffee -- 4. War, Disease and Settlement: the Americas -- 5. The Indian Weed: Tobacco -- 6. The Aztec Drink: Chocolate -- 7. Feeding the People: the Potato -- 8. The African Gift: Sugar -- 9. The Cause of All Distress: Plantations -- 10. Shops and Shopping -- 11. The Passion to Consume -- 12. Questions of Taste, Addiction -- and Empire.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-212) and index.".
- catalog description "What could be more British than a cup of tea? What has proved more resilient vice in Western life than tobacco? What are the origins of our enthusiasm for spice, smoke, and sugar? James Walvin here illustrates how the tastes of the British people, and ultimately the sensory predilections of the entire West, were profoundly transformed by the fruits of distant empire and trade. Tracing the history of British global trade and the drive for imperial pre-eminence to the rise of a new kind of domestic material consumption, Fruits of Empire devotes chapters to the allure and spread of tea, coffee, tobacco, chocolate, the potato, and sugar, thereby revealing a continuum between the British passion for empire and the contemporary Western passion to consume.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 219 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0814793142".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New York University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Colonies Commerce History.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Commerce History 17th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Commerce History 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Commerce History.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Social life and customs 17th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Social life and customs 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "382/.415/0941 20".
- catalog subject "Consumption (Economics) Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "HF3505 .W35 1996".
- catalog subject "HF3505 .W35 1997".
- catalog subject "Produce trade Colonies Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Produce trade Great Britain Colonies History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Attractions of the East -- 2. Tea -- 3. Coffee -- 4. War, Disease and Settlement: the Americas -- 5. The Indian Weed: Tobacco -- 6. The Aztec Drink: Chocolate -- 7. Feeding the People: the Potato -- 8. The African Gift: Sugar -- 9. The Cause of All Distress: Plantations -- 10. Shops and Shopping -- 11. The Passion to Consume -- 12. Questions of Taste, Addiction -- and Empire.".
- catalog title "Fruits of empire : exotic produce and British taste, 1660-1800 / James Walvin.".
- catalog type "text".