Tea by Roy Moxham (2003, Hardcover) 
Tea by Roy Moxham (2003, Hardcover)

 
Tea by Roy Moxham (2003, Hardcover)

Author: Roy Moxham
Publisher: Running Pr Book Pub
Publication Date: 2003-09-24
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0786712279
ISBN-13: 9780786712274
Product ID: EPID2864125
Description: Working backward from his own involvement in the business--he worked on a tea plantation in Malawi when he was a young man--Roy Moxham traces the history of Britain's long love affair with tea from its beginning as a chic new imported dr...
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Synopsis
Working backward from his own involvement in the business--he worked on a tea plantation in Malawi when he was a young man--Roy Moxham traces the history of Britain's long love affair with tea from its beginning as a chic new imported drink in the 17th century. Its ramifications through the centuries encompass crime, medicine, slavery, and colonialism.

Details
Publication Date:2003-09-24

Size
Length:224 pages
Height:5.8 in
Width:8.5 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:16.6 oz

Publisher's Note
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 America, while exploring its role in shaping the economic fortunes of the British Empire from London to Africa to the coast of India.

Industry Reviews
"Roy Moxham is well qualified to have written this absorbing--and sometimes shocking--history of tea....TEA: ADDICTION, EXPLOITATION AND EMPIRE offers an eye-opening account of the tea trade...."
Literary Review - Christopher Ondaatje (11/01/2003)

"Unflinching annals of commodity-driven colonialism."
Kirkus (08/15/2003)

"Though TEA delivers an absorbing postcolonial perspective on the drink's historical function, just as engaging are the minute details of settings and events surrounding its long history....[Moxham's] personal spin on the broader history draws the reader in and reveals practical details of living in a tea-saturated environment."
Bloomsbury Review

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