[PDF.84bf] The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse

The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse

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 | #1571599 in Books |  2011-02-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.16 x.80 x6.18l,1.17 | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Coffee and the Virtuosi|By Alexis A. Harasemovitch|Brian Cowan's The Social Life of Coffee discusses the cultural aspects of rise of the coffeehouse in seventeenth century Britain. Cowan traces the role of the virtuosi--a group of gentlemanly intellectuals interested in the arts and sciences--in the development of coffee culture. Cowan argues that virtuosi curiosity about| |"'A well-researched, wide-ranging and fascinating book... Cowan adds rich colours and shades to a picture we had hitherto only in outline.' (Kevin Sharpe, Times Literary Supplement) 'Because the modern world was washed into existence on a tide of caffeine, the

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, an...

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