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| ISBN: | 9780300133509
0300133502
0300106661
9780300106664
9781281722713
1281722715
9780300106664
0300106661
9780300171228
0300171226
9786611722715
6611722718
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-354) and index.
English.
Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR platform, viewed May 17, 2017).
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| Summary: | "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 enthusiasts were also transformed by their own invention."--Provided by publisher.
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| Other form: | Print version: Cowan, Brian William, 1969- Social life of coffee. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2005 0300106661 9780300106664
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| Standard no.: | 9780300106664
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