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008			150206s2015 enkab b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9781780234403
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100	1		_aEllis, Markman, _eauthor. _9321447
245	1	0	_aEmpire of tea : _bthe Asian leaf that conquered the world / _cMarkman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger.
264		1	_aLondon : _bReaktion Books, _c2015.
300			_a326 pages : _billustrations (some color), maps ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 307-314) and index.
520			_aTea has a rich and well-documented past. The beverage originated in Asia long before making its way to seventeenth-century London, where it became an exotic, highly sought after commodity. Over the subsequent two centuries, tea's powerful psychoactive properties seduced British society, becoming popular across the nation from castle to cottage. Now the world's most popular drink, tea was one of the first truly global products to find a mass market, with tea drinking now stereotypically associated with British identity. Imported by the East India Company in increasing quantities across the eighteenth century, tea inaugurated the first regular exchange between China and Britain, both commercial and cultural. While European scientists struggled to make sense of its natural history and medicinal properties, the delicate flavor profile and hot preparation of tea inspired poets, artists and satirists. Becoming central to everyday life, tea was embroiled in controversy, from the gossip of the domestic tea table to the civil disorder occasioned by smuggling, and the political scandal of the Boston Tea Party to the violent conflict of the Anglo- Chinese Opium War. Such stories shaped the contexts for the imperial tea industry that later developed across India and Sri Lanka.
505	0	0	_tEarly European Encounters with Tea -- _tEstablishing the Taste for Tea in Britain -- _tThe Tea Trade with China -- _tThe Elevation of Tea -- _tThe Natural Philosophy of Tea -- _tThe Market for Tea in Britain -- _tThe British Way of Tea -- _tSmuggling and Taxation -- _tThe Democratization of Tea Drinking -- _tTea in the Politics of Empire -- _tThe National Drink of Victorian Britain -- _tTwentieth-century Tea -- _tEpilogue: Global Tea.
650		0	_aTea _zGreat Britain _xHistory. _9321448
650		0	_aTea trade _zGreat Britain _xHistory. _968940
650		0	_aTea _xHistory. _980191
700	1		_aCoulton, Richard _q(Richard Xavier), _eauthor. _9321449
700	1		_aMauger, Matthew, _eauthor. _9321450
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