The Tale of Tea

George L van Driem

ISBN 10: 9004386254 / ISBN 13: 9789004386259

Published by Brill Mär 2019, 2019

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Neuware -The Tale of Tea is the saga of globalisation. Tea gave birth to paper money, the Opium Wars and Hong Kong, triggered the Anglo-Dutch wars and the American war of independence, shaped the economies and military history of Táng and Sòng China and moulded Chinese art and culture. Whilst black tea dominates the global market today, such tea is a recent invention. No tea plantations existed in the world's largest black tea producing countries, India, Kenya and Sri Lanka, when the Dutch and the English went to war about tea in the 17th century. This book replaces popular myths about tea with recondite knowledge on the hidden origins and detailed history of today's globalised beverage in its many modern guises. 904 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tale of Tea
• Publisher: Brill Mär 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004386254
• ISBN 13: 9789004386259
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 267W x 213H x 55D millimeters 267 millimeters width by 213 millimeters height by 55 millimeters depth
• Weight: 2868 grams

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Synopsis

The Tale of Tea is the saga of globalisation. Tea gave birth to paper money, the Opium Wars and Hong Kong, triggered the Anglo-Dutch wars and the American war of independence, shaped the economies and military history of Táng and Sòng China and moulded Chinese art and culture. Whilst black tea dominates the global market today, such tea is a recent invention. No tea plantations existed in the world’s largest black tea producing countries, India, Kenya and Sri Lanka, when the Dutch and the English went to war about tea in the 17th century. This book replaces popular myths about tea with recondite knowledge on the hidden origins and detailed history of today’s globalised beverage in its many modern guises.

About the Author

George van Driem directs the Linguistics Institute at the University of Bern, where he occupies the Chair of Historical Linguistics. He has written grammars of Limbu, Dzongkha, Bumthang and Dumi and authored the two-volume ethnolinguistic handbook Languages of the Himalayas (Brill, 2001).