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Troy Bickham : Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Reaktion Books Ltd, London, 2020

ISBN 1789142075

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. K5 - A first edition (First published 2020 stated) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book lightly bowed, some bumped corners, small patch stain on the top page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.5"x6.5", 285 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco, Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea or a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware of the mechanisms of imperial rule and trade that made such goods readily available? In Eating the Empire, Troy Bickham unfolds the extraordinary role that food played in shaping Britain during the 'long' eighteenth century (c. 1660-1837), when recipes from around the world peppered a new generation of popular cookery books, and coffee, tea, and sugar went from rare luxuries to some of the most ubiquitous commodities in Britain, reaching even the poorest and remotest of households. The trade in the empire's edibles underpinned the emerging consumer economy, fomenting the rise of modern retailing, visual advertising, and consumer credit, and, via taxes, financed the military and civil bureaucracy that secured, governed, and spread the Empire.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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