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

By Brian Cowan

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300171226
• ISBN13: 9780300171228
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"