Rappaport, Erika Diane,  1963- <br/><br/>
A thirst for empire :  how tea shaped the modern world / 
Erika Rappaport. 
 - Princeton and Oxford :  Princeton University Press,  2017. 
 - xiv, 549 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: A soldiers' tea party in Surrey -- Part I. Anxious relations -- "A China drink approved by all physicians" : setting the early modern tea table -- The temperance tea table : making a sober consumer culture in the nineteenth century -- "A little opium, sweet words, and cheap guns" : planting a global industry in Assam -- Packaging China : advertising food safety in a global marketplace -- Part II. Imperial tastes -- Industry and empire : manufacturing imperial tastes in Victorian Britain -- The planter abroad : building foreign markets in the fin-de-siecle -- "Every kitchen an empire kitchen": the politics of imperial consumerism -- "Tea revives the world" : selling vitality during the Depression -- "Hot drinks means much in the jungle" : tea in the service of war -- Part III. Aftertastes -- Leftovers? : an imperial industry at the end of empire -- "Join the tea set" : youth, modernity, and the legacies of empire during the swinging sixties. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691167114 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Tea--History.<br/>Tea--Social aspects--History.<br/>Imperialism--Social aspects--History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>641.372 RAP