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Tea in and After Empire invites a conversation between the past and present by asking how the problems and possibilities of this global crop, which many growing regions are grappling with, could be enriched by recognizing how imperial structures, practices, ideologies, and interactions among diverse empires and their many components, continue to shape tea’s meanings, values, and practices. Focusing on the period since the eighteenth century, especially the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the authors address such questions as anthropologists, historians, artists, and sociologists. It argues that tea’s global popularity and problems demand a multidisciplinary approach that considers tea’s life as a plant, medicine, commodity, beverage, cultural practice, social and political symbol, and source of artistic inspiration.
Price: $118.00
Pages: 292
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Global Tea Studies
Publication Date:
07 January 2027
ISBN: 9789004776548
Format: Hardcover
Erika Rappaport is Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara. A European cultural historian, she has published on the histories of gender and consumer cultures. Her book, A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World (Princeton University Press, 2017), won the 2018 American Historical Association’s Jerry Bentley Prize and the Association for the Study of Food and Society’s 2018 Book Award.
Muey C. Saeteurn is an Associate Professor of African History at the University of California, Merced. A social historian, she studies how rural African women and men shaped large-scale historical processes. She is the author of Cultivating Their Own: Agriculture in Western Kenya During the “Development” Era (University of Rochester Press, 2020).
Muey C. Saeteurn is an Associate Professor of African History at the University of California, Merced. A social historian, she studies how rural African women and men shaped large-scale historical processes. She is the author of Cultivating Their Own: Agriculture in Western Kenya During the “Development” Era (University of Rochester Press, 2020).