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  • The Coffee-House

    A Cultural History

    by Markman Ellis ...
    How the simple commodity of coffee came to rewrite the experience of metropolitan lifeWhen the first coffee-house opened in London in 1652, customers were bewildered by this strange new drink from Turkey. But those who tried coffee were soon won over. More coffee-houses were opened across London and, in the following decades, in America and Europe.For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 2

    by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Ben Dew, Matthew Mauger ...
    This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 1

    by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Ben Dew, Matthew Mauger ...
    This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 4

    by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Ben Dew, Matthew Mauger ...
    This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

    by Charles Ignatius Sancho ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'In short, I write just what I think.' After a successful career in the service of an aristocratic family, Charles Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780) established a successful grocery business in Westminster and had eight children, four of whom survived to adulthood. Charming, playful, and thoughtful, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African provides an unequalled portrait of the everyday life ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 3

    by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Ben Dew, Matthew Mauger ...
    This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 2

    by Markman Ellis ...
    Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of literature, science, and medicine. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Empire of Tea

    The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

    by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger ...
    Tea has a rich and well-documented past. The beverage originated in Asia long before making its way to seventeenth-century London, where it became an exotic, highly sought after commodity. Over the subsequent two centuries, tea’s powerful psychoactive properties seduced British society, becoming popular across the nation from castle to cottage. Now the world’s most popular drink, tea was one of ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Science and Reading in the Eighteenth Century

    The Hardwicke Circle and the Royal Society, 1740–1766

    by Markman Ellis ...
    Series series Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
    Science and Reading in the Eighteenth Century studies the reading habits of a group of historians and science administrators known as the Hardwicke Circle. The research is based on an analysis of the reading recorded in the 'Weekly Letter', an unpublished private correspondence written from 1741 to 1766 between Thomas Birch (1705–1766), Secretary of the Royal Society, and Philip Yorke (1720–1790), ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 1

    by Markman Ellis ...
    Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of literature, science, and medicine. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 4

    by Markman Ellis ...
    Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of literature, science, and medicine. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 3

    by Markman Ellis ...
    Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of literature, science, and medicine. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD