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Tea and Empire - James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon (Hardcover)
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Tea and Empire - James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon (Hardcover)
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This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of
James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the
nineteenth century. Publicly celebrated in Sri Lanka for his
efforts in transforming the country's economy and shaping the
world's drinking habits, Taylor died in disgrace and remains
unknown to the present day in his native Scotland. Using a unique
archive of Taylor's letters written over a forty-year period,
Angela McCarthy and Tom Devine provide an unusually detailed
reconstruction of a British planter's life in Asia at the high noon
of empire. As well as charting the development of Ceylon's key
commodities in the nineteenth century, the book examines the dark
side of planting life including violence and conflict, oppression
and despair. A range of other fascinating themes are evocatively
examined, including graphic depictions of the Indian Mutiny, 'race'
and ethnicity, migration, environmental transformation,
cross-cultural contact, and emotional ties to home. -- .
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