Utgiven av bokförlaget Reaktion Books som är känt för att ge ut intressanta, udda titlar. Boken är rikt illustrerad (89 teckningar).
”When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco, Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea or a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware of the mechanisms of imperial rule and trade that made such goods readily available?
In Eating the Empire, Troy Bickham unfolds the extraordinary role that food played in shaping Britain during the ‘long’ eighteenth century (c. 1660–1837), when recipes from around the world peppered a new generation of popular cookery books, and coffee, tea and sugar went from rare luxuries to some of the most ubiquitous commodities in Britain, reaching even the poorest and remotest of households.”
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Författaren är professor i historia vid Texas A&M University.
Bokomslagsbild: James Gillray, ”Monstrous Craws, at a New Coalition Feast” (London, 1777) – photo Library of Congress, Washington, DC (Prints and Photographs Division)
