Bøger af Richard Coulton

Empire of Tea is a cultural history of tea, from its ancient origins in China to its position as the world's favorite beverage today. It shows how tea was one of the first truly global commodities, and gave rise to the earliest cultural and economic exchanges between China and Britain.

This study offers an authoritative and readable account of the hidden history of book theft in eighteenth-century London. Finally, the authors ask what the Proceedings tells us about the social ownership of books, and how the phenomenon of book theft differently affected book producers and consumers.