Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Bickham, Troy

Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789142075)

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Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Bickham, Troy

Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain

$35.00
Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Bickham, Troy

Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco; when Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea; or when a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware of the mechanisms of imperial rule and trade that made such goods readily available? In Eating the Empire, Troy Bickham unfolds the extraordinary role that food played in shaping Britain during the long eighteenth century (circa 1660-1837), when such foreign goods as coffee, tea, and sugar went from rare luxuries to some of the most ubiquitous commodities in Britain--reaching even the poorest and remotest of households. Bickham reveals how trade in the empire's edibles underpinned the emerging consumer economy, fomenting the rise of modern retailing, visual advertising, and consumer credit, and, via taxes, financed the military and civil bureaucracy that secured, governed, and spread the British Empire.

Author: Troy Bickham
ISBN-10: 1789142075
ISBN-13: 9781789142075
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2020
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.20d
By Troy Bickham
By Troy Bickham
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Troy Bickham is professor of history at Texas A & M University. He is the author of The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812; Making Headlines: The American Revolution as Seen through the British Press; and Savages within the Empire.

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