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The social life of coffee : the emergence of the British coffeehouse / Brian Cowan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cowan, Brian William, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coffeehouses--History.
- Coffee--History.
- Coffee.
- History.
- Coffeehouses.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2005]
- Contents:
- Part I Coffee: From Curiosity to Commodity 5
- 1 An Acquired Taste 16
- 2 Coffee and Early Modern Drug Culture 31
- 3 From Mocha to Java 55
- Part II Inventing the Coffeehouse 79
- 4 Penny Universities? 89
- 5 Exotic Fantasies and Commercial Anxieties 113
- Part III Civilizing the Coffeehouses 147
- 6 Before Bureaucracy 152
- 7 Policing the Coffeehouse 193
- 8 Civilizing Society 225.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-354) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300106661
- OCLC:
- 58422750
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