The Trouble with Tea: The Politics of Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Global Economy (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)
The Trouble with Tea explores the relationship between consumption, politics, and the global economy during the eighteenth century. Centering tea within early American economic and social history, Jane T. Merritt offers a focused study of how an everyday commodity can illuminate broader historical forces.
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The Trouble with Tea examines the politics of consumption in the eighteenth-century global economy.
Focusing on tea, the book considers how a widely consumed product intersected with economic and political life.
Its subject connects global commerce with early American history and the study of consumption.
Published in the Studies in Early American Economy and Society series from the Library Company of Philadelphia, this work offers a focused scholarly perspective on tea and its historical context.
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