The social life of coffee : the emergence of the British coffeehouse / Brian Cowan.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0300106661
- 9780300106664
- 647.9509 22
- TX908 .C68 2005
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 647.9509 COW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A403066B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-354) and index.
Pt. I. Coffee : from curiosity to commodity -- 1. An acquired taste -- 2. Coffee and early modern drug culture -- 3. From mocha to java -- Pt. II. Inventing the coffeehouse -- 4. Penny universities? -- 5. Exotic fantasies and commercial anxieties -- Pt. III. Civilizing the coffeehouses -- 6. Before bureaucracy -- 7. Policing the coffeehouse -- 8. Civilizing society.
"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.
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