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The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse
The Social Life of Coffee The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse
Author: Brian Cowan
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, com...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300106664
ISBN-10: 0300106661
Publication Date: 11/11/2005
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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