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A Brief History of Tea by Roy Moxham
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
Behind the wholesome image of the world's most popular drink lies a strangely murky and often violent past. When tea began to be imported into the West from China in the seventeenth century, its high price and heavy taxes made it an immediate target for smuggling and dispute at every level, culminating ...Show more
Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire by Roy Moxham
Category: Food Cooking Wine
The British were slow to take up tea, lagging behind the Portuguese and Dutch, and even the French. When they finally took it to their hearts, however, it became a national obsession. They covered their kingdom with tea gardens and tea shops. The taxation of tea led to massive smuggling, and the loss of ...Show more
The Great Hedge of India by Roy Moxham
Category: Travel
How a discovery in a secondhand bookshop set off a search for a lost monument of the British Raj. This is the story of a quest, in the author
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