The Trouble with Tea: The Politics of Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Global Economy by Jane T. Merritt

The Trouble with Tea: The Politics of Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Global Economy

Jane T. Merritt

224 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Americans imagined tea as central to their revolution. After years of colonial boycotts against the commodity, the Sons of Liberty kindled the fire of independence when they dumped tea in the Boston harbor in 1773. To reject tea as a consumer item...

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