The coffee-house : a cultural history / Markman Ellis
2004, First Edition. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #457134
ISBN: 0297843192
Physical description; xiv, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), 1 map ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Preface : the conversible world -- 1. First encounters : George Sandys and the coffa-houses of Constantinople -- 2. The wine of Islam discovered -- 3. The first English coffee-house -- 4. The republic of coffee : the Coffee Club of the Rota -- 5. Talking to strangers -- 6. Coffee with wings : the spread of the coffee-house -- 7. 'Freedom of words' : Charles II and the challenge of the coffee-house -- 8. The coffee-house trade -- 9. Humours, anti-hypnoticks and caffeine -- 10. The free-school of ingenuity -- 11. The concourse of merchants -- 12. The philosopher in the coffee-house -- 13. The passing of the coffee-house -- 14. Angry young men and the espresso revolution -- Epilogue : milk and sugar -- App. The spread of the coffee-house. Subjects; 1600-1799. Coffeehouses History. Coffeehouses Social aspects. Coffeehouses England London History.
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