Ellis, Markman, <br/><br/>
The coffee-house :  a cultural history / 
Markman Ellis. 
 - xiv, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Preface : the conversible world --  First encounters : George Sandys and the coffa-houses of Constantinople --  The wine of Islam discovered --  The first English coffee-house --  The republic of coffee : the Coffee Club of the Rota --  Talking to strangers --  Coffee with wings : the spread of the coffee-house --  'Freedom of words' : Charles II and the challenge of the coffee-house --  The coffee-house trade --  Humours, anti-hypnoticks and caffeine --  The free-school of ingenuity --  The concourse of merchants --  The philosopher in the coffee-house --  The passing of the coffee-house --  Angry young men and the espresso revolution --  Epilogue : milk and sugar --  The spread of the coffee-house.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13.  14.  App. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0297843192 9780297843191 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005360924 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Coffeehouses--History<br/>Coffeehouses--Social aspects<br/>Coffeehouses--History--England--London
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>London (England)--Social life and customs--17th century<br/>London (England)--Social life and customs--18th century<br/>London (England)--History--17th century<br/>London (England)--History--18th century
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TX910.G7  / E45 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>647.95421