TY - BOOK AU - Ellis,Markman TI - The coffee-house: a cultural history SN - 0297843192 AV - TX910.G7 E45 2004 U1 - 647.95421 22 PY - 2004/// CY - London PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson KW - Coffeehouses KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - England KW - London KW - London (England) KW - Social life and customs KW - 17th century KW - 18th century N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0627/2005360924-b.html ER -