Eating the Empire by Troy Bickham5/12/2023 ![]() The trade in the empire’s edibles underpinned the emerging consumer economy, fomenting the rise of modern retailing, visual advertising and consumer credit, and, via taxes, financed the military and civil bureaucracy that secured, governed and spread the empire. 1660–1837), when recipes from around the world peppered a new generation of popular cookery books, and coffee, tea and sugar went from rare luxuries to some of the most ubiquitous commodities in Britain, reaching even the poorest and remotest of households. ![]() In Eating the Empire, Troy Bickham unfolds the extraordinary role that food played in shaping Britain during the ‘long’ eighteenth century ( c. Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain. ![]() ![]() When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco, Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea or a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware of the mechanisms of imperial rule and trade that made such goods readily available? See all books authored by Troy Bickham, including Weight of Vengeance: The United. Demonstrates the pivotal role that food played in shaping Britain during the ‘long’ 18th century. ![]()
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