Sugar and Spice: Grocers and Groceries in Provincial England, 1650-1830

by Jon Stobart

Book Overview

Consumers in eighteenth-century England were firmly embedded in an expanding world of goods, one that incorporated a range of novel foods (tobacco, chocolate, coffee, and tea) and new supplies of more established commodities, including sugar, spices, and dried fruits. Much has been written about the attraction of these goods, which went from being novelties or expensive luxuries in the mid-seventeenth century to central elements of the British diet...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198795963
• ISBN13: 9780198795964
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"