Edward Palmer Grocer Book

Language: en
Pages: 48

Poisonous Tea!

Author(s): Edward Palmer (grocer.)

Categories: Counterfeiters

Type: Book
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Published: 1818
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Publisher: Unknown

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Language: en
Pages: 1020

Catalogue of the Library of the Patent Office

Author(s): Great Britain. Patent Office. Library

Categories: Industrial arts

Type: Book
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Published: 1898
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Publisher: Unknown

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Language: en
Pages: 574

Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London. Instituted in the Year 1824: M-Z and additions to June, 1889

Author(s): Guildhall Library (London, England)

Categories: Great Britain

Type: Book
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Published: 1889
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Publisher: Unknown

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Language: en
Pages: 820

Slater's, late Pigot & co., royal national and commercial directory and topography of the counties of Bedfordshire, Berkshire

Author(s): Isaac Slater

Type: Book
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Published: 1852
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Publisher: Unknown

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Language: en
Pages: 568

A Thirst for Empire

Author(s): Erika Rappaport

Categories: Cooking

Type: Book
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Published: 2019-03-05
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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 cultivation brought about massive changes--in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies--the effects of which are with us even today. A Thirst for Empire takes a vast and in-depth historical look at how men and women--through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa--transformed global tastes and habits and in the process created our modern consumer society. As Erika Rappaport shows, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries the boundaries of the tea industry and the British Empire overl...