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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-15 - Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Language: en
Pages: 303
Pages: 303
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-30 - Publisher: Random House
Apart from water, tea is more widely consumed than any other food or drink. Tens of billions of cups are drunk every day. How and why has tea conquered the worl
Language: en
Pages: 568
Pages: 568
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-05 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
"Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its c
Language: en
Pages: 271
Pages: 271
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Running PressBook Pub
A comprehensive treatment of the single commodity that helped shape an empire explores the role of tea in England's wars with China and her own colonists in Ame
Language: en
Pages: 364
Pages: 364
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-21 - Publisher: Manchester University Press
This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, ‘father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’ in the nineteenth century. Publicly