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The Social Life of Coffee - The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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The Social Life of Coffee - The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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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 virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
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