Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 2

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833 This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833.

• | Author: Ben Dew, Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, Markman Ellis
• | Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jul 01, 2010
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781138757615
• | ISBN-10: 1138757616