03306nam 22006374a 450 991045216840332120210602203830.01-281-72271-597866117227150-300-13350-210.12987/9780300133509(CKB)1000000000472065(StDuBDS)AH23049766(SSID)ssj0000247520(PQKBManifestationID)11224087(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247520(PQKBWorkID)10198996(PQKB)10179335(MiAaPQ)EBC3420069(DE-B1597)485563(OCoLC)952732002(DE-B1597)9780300133509(Au-PeEL)EBL3420069(CaPaEBR)ebr10170759(CaONFJC)MIL172271(OCoLC)923589429(EXLCZ)99100000000047206520050215d2005 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe social life of coffee[electronic resource] the emergence of the British coffeehouse /Brian CowanNew Haven [Conn.] Yale University Pressc20051 online resource (384 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-10666-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-354) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --A Note on Styles and Conventions --Introduction --1. An Acquired Taste --2. Coffee and Early Modern Drug Culture --3. From Mocha to Java --4. Penny Universities? --5. Exotic Fantasies and Commercial Anxieties --6. Before Bureaucracy --7. Policing the Coffeehouse --8. Civilizing Society --Conclusion --Notes --Bibliography --IndexWhat 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.CoffeehousesHistoryCoffeeHistoryElectronic books.CoffeehousesHistory.CoffeeHistory.647.9509NN 7500rvkCowan Brian William1969-1034127MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452168403321The social life of coffee2453060UNINA