1st Edition
Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 4
402 Pages
by
Routledge
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.
Biography
Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Ben Dew, Matthew Mauger