Author: Avero Publications Limited
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9780907977575
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Brian Cowan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0300133502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-07-31
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521437738
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism.
Author: John William Edward Conybeare
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eric A. Willats
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780951187104
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William E. Burns
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1438127375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Brief History of Great Britain narrates the history of Great Britain from the earliest times to the 21st century, covering the entire island England, Wales, and Scotland as well as associated archipelagos such as the Channel Islands, the Orkneys, and Ireland as they have influenced British history. The central story of this volume is the development of the British kingdom, including its rise and decline on the world stage. The book is built around a clear chronological political narrative while incorporating treatment of social, economic, and religious issues. Coverage includes: Early Settlements, Celts, and Romans Anglo-Saxons, Scots, and Vikings Scotland, England, and Wales Britain in the Late Middle Ages The Making of Protestant Britain Industry and Conquest Britain in the Age of Empire An Age of Crisis The Age of Consensus A House Divided.