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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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New York University Press
Language
English
Pages
219

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Subjects
History, Commerce, Colonies, Social life and customs, Consumption (Economics), Produce trade, Great britain, commerce, Great britain, colonies, history, Great britain, social life and customs
Places
Great Britain, Commerce
Times
17th century, 18th century

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March 19, 1997, Palgrave Macmillan
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Fruits of empire: exotic produce and British taste, 1660-1800
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1997, New York University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-212) and index.

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382/.415/0941
Library of Congress
HF3505 .W35 1997, HF3505.W35 1997

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xiii, 219 p. ;
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219

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OL971670M
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0814793142
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96008476
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34651360
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2410170
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