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Fruits of Empire
James Walvin
其他書名
Exotic Produce and British Taste, 1660-1800
出版Macmillan, 1997
主題Business & Economics / Economics / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Industries / AgribusinessBusiness & Economics / CommerceHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralSocial Science / Customs & Traditions
ISBN03336706209780333670620
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=M1GGAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋What could be more British than a cup of tea? What has proved more resilient vice in Western life than tobacco? What are the origins of our enthusiasm for spice, smoke, and sugar? James Walvin here illustrates how the tastes of the British people, and ultimately the sensory predilections of the entire West, were profoundly transformed by the fruits of distant empire and trade. Tracing the history of British global trade and the drive for imperial pre-eminence to the rise of a new kind of domestic material consumption, Fruits of Empire devotes chapters to the allure and spread of tea, coffee, tobacco, chocolate, the potato, and sugar, thereby revealing a continuum between the British passion for empire and the contemporary Western passion to consume.