Rappaport, Erika
A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World
- ISBN 13:
- 9780691192703
- author:
- Rappaport, Erika
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 568
- Dimensions:
- 23.5 x 15.6 centimetres
- Genre:
- History, Europe, Great Britain,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
A Thirst for Empire explores how the global tea industry shaped our modern consumer society. Over centuries, profits from tea's growth and sales funded wars and colonization, transforming land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies.
The book delves into how Europeans adopted, appropriated, and altered Chinese tea culture to build a widespread demand for tea in Britain and other global markets, as well as the plantation-based economy that emerged in South Asia and Africa. The commercial model of the tea industry continues to influence politics and publicity in the international economy.
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