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Author:

Merritt, Jane T., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95081890

Title:

The trouble with tea : the politics of consumption in the eighteenth-century global economy / Jane T. Merritt.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

212 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Tea trade--History--History--18th century.
Great Britain--History.--History.
United States--History.--History.
United States--Foreign economic relations.
Great Britain--Foreign economic relations.
United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: consumer revolutions -- The English commercial empire expands -- The rise of a "tea-fac'd generation" -- Politicizing American consumption -- The global dimensions of the American tea crisis -- Repatriating tea in revolutionary America -- Chinese tea and American commercial independence -- Conclusion.

Series:

Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia

ISBN:

1421421534
9781421421537
1421421526
9781421421520

OCLC:

(OCoLC)948360665

LCCN:

2016012792

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)