Tea and empire
James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon
This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the nineteenth century. Publicly celebrated in Sri Lanka for his efforts in transforming the country's economy and shaping the world's drinking habits, Taylor died in disgrace and remains unknown to the present day in his native Scotland. Using a unique archive of Taylor's letters written over a forty-year period, Angela McCarthy and Tom Devine provide an unusually detailed reconstruction of a British planter's life in Asia at the high noon of empire. As well as charting the development of Ceylon's key commodities in the…
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Weitere Autoren: Devine, T.
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-2339-8
- EAN: 9781526123398
- Produktnummer: 32341441
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'127 KB
- Abbildungen: 37 black & white illustrations, 2 maps
Über den Autor
Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History at the University of Otago Sir Tom Devine is Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh
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