The social life of coffee : the emergence of the British coffeehouse / Brian Cowan.

"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 t...

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Main Author: Cowan, Brian William, 1969- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2005]
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