Cowan Brian Cowan 
Social Life of Coffee [EPUB ebook] 
The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse

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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...

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 384 ● ISBN 9780300133509 ● Publisher Yale University Press ● Published 2008 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2308639 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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