The social life of coffee : the emergence of the British coffeehouse /
Cowan, Brian William, 1969-
The social life of coffee : the emergence of the British coffeehouse / Brian Cowan. - xii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-354) and index.
Coffee : from curiosity to commodity -- An acquired taste -- Coffee and early modern drug culture -- From mocha to java -- Inventing the coffeehouse -- Penny universities? -- Exotic fantasies and commercial anxieties -- Civilizing the coffeehouses -- Before bureaucracy -- Policing the coffeehouse -- Civilizing society. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. Pt. III. 6. 7. 8.
"Brian Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century."--BOOK JACKET.
0300106661 9780300106664
2005043555
Coffee--History.
TX908 / .C68 2005
647.9509
The social life of coffee : the emergence of the British coffeehouse / Brian Cowan. - xii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-354) and index.
Coffee : from curiosity to commodity -- An acquired taste -- Coffee and early modern drug culture -- From mocha to java -- Inventing the coffeehouse -- Penny universities? -- Exotic fantasies and commercial anxieties -- Civilizing the coffeehouses -- Before bureaucracy -- Policing the coffeehouse -- Civilizing society. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. Pt. III. 6. 7. 8.
"Brian Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century."--BOOK JACKET.
0300106661 9780300106664
2005043555
Coffee--History.
TX908 / .C68 2005
647.9509