A thirst for empire how tea shaped the modern world introduction 1 introduction a soldiers tea party in surrey o n a cold friday evening at the end of november in 1941 an unknown photographer captured a quiet moment when a group of indian soldiers came to woking surrey to rest pray and drink tea. The commercial model that tea inspired still exists and is vital for understanding how politics and publicity influence the international economy an expansive and original global history of imperial tea a thirst for empire demonstrates the ways that this fluid and powerful enterprise helped shape the contemporary world. A thirst for empire takes a vast and in depth historical look at how men and women through the tea industry in europe asia north america and africa transformed global tastes and habits and in the process created our modern consumer societyas erika rappaport shows between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries the boundaries of the tea industry and the british empire overlapped but were never identical and she highlights the economic political and cultural forces that enabled the . A thirst for empire how tea shaped the modern world is no run of the mill commodity history however erika rappaports tome of 549 pages on the beverage made from the leaves of the camellia sinensis covers a wide span of its history focusing on imperial networks and the forces of globalization also aided by examples of marketing and advertising. A thirst for empire how tea shaped the modern world rappaport erika amazonnl selecteer uw cookievoorkeuren we gebruiken cookies en vergelijkbare tools om uw winkelervaring te verbeteren onze services aan te bieden te begrijpen hoe klanten onze services gebruiken zodat we verbeteringen kunnen aanbrengen en om advertenties weer te geven