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The coffee-house : a cultural history / Markman Ellis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004Description: xiv, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0297843192
  • 9780297843191
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 647.95421 22
LOC classification:
  • TX910.G7 E45 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface : the conversible world -- 1. First encounters : George Sandys and the coffa-houses of Constantinople -- 2. The wine of Islam discovered -- 3. The first English coffee-house -- 4. The republic of coffee : the Coffee Club of the Rota -- 5. Talking to strangers -- 6. Coffee with wings : the spread of the coffee-house -- 7. 'Freedom of words' : Charles II and the challenge of the coffee-house -- 8. The coffee-house trade -- 9. Humours, anti-hypnoticks and caffeine -- 10. The free-school of ingenuity -- 11. The concourse of merchants -- 12. The philosopher in the coffee-house -- 13. The passing of the coffee-house -- 14. Angry young men and the espresso revolution -- Epilogue : milk and sugar -- App. The spread of the coffee-house.
Review: "How did coffee redefine the experience of metropolitan life? This wide-ranging history tells the story of the coffee-house, from its emergence in London in the mid-seventeenth century to today's spectacular growth of coffee-bar chains such as Starbucks."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface : the conversible world -- 1. First encounters : George Sandys and the coffa-houses of Constantinople -- 2. The wine of Islam discovered -- 3. The first English coffee-house -- 4. The republic of coffee : the Coffee Club of the Rota -- 5. Talking to strangers -- 6. Coffee with wings : the spread of the coffee-house -- 7. 'Freedom of words' : Charles II and the challenge of the coffee-house -- 8. The coffee-house trade -- 9. Humours, anti-hypnoticks and caffeine -- 10. The free-school of ingenuity -- 11. The concourse of merchants -- 12. The philosopher in the coffee-house -- 13. The passing of the coffee-house -- 14. Angry young men and the espresso revolution -- Epilogue : milk and sugar -- App. The spread of the coffee-house.

"How did coffee redefine the experience of metropolitan life? This wide-ranging history tells the story of the coffee-house, from its emergence in London in the mid-seventeenth century to today's spectacular growth of coffee-bar chains such as Starbucks."--BOOK JACKET.

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