The Social Life of Coffee - Brian Cowan

The Social Life of Coffee

The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
384 Seiten
2011
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-17122-8 (ISBN)
42,55 inkl. MwSt
Provides an account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing the author reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century.
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century.

Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.

Brian Cowan holds the Canada Research Chair in Early Modern British History at McGill University. He lives in Montreal.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.3.2011
Zusatzinfo 43 b-w illus.
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 544 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Essen / Trinken Getränke
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-300-17122-6 / 0300171226
ISBN-13 978-0-300-17122-8 / 9780300171228
Zustand Neuware
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