The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse

by Brian Cowan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300106661
• ISBN13: 9780300106664
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"