An edition of Fruits of Empire (1996)

Fruits of Empire

Exotic Produce and British Trade, 1660-1800

Fruits of Empire
Walvin, James., Walvin, James.
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An edition of Fruits of Empire (1996)

Fruits of Empire

Exotic Produce and British Trade, 1660-1800

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.

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Palgrave Macmillan
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240

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Cover of: Fruits of Empire
Fruits of Empire
March 19, 1997, Palgrave Macmillan
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Cover of: Fruits of empire
Fruits of empire: exotic produce and British taste, 1660-1800
1997, Macmillan
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Cover of: Fruits of empire
Fruits of empire: exotic produce and British taste, 1660-1800
1997, New York University Press
in English
Cover of: Fruits of Empire
Fruits of Empire: Exotic Produce and British Trade, 1660-1800
November 1996, Palgrave Macmillan
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