The coffee-house : a cultural history / Markman Ellis.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.Description: xiv, 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780753818985
- Coffeehouses -- History
- Coffeehouses -- Social aspects
- Coffeehouses -- England -- London -- History
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
- London (England) -- History -- 17th century
- London (England) -- History -- 18th century
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- TX910.G7 E45 2004
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
First encounters : George Sandys and the coffa-houses of Constantinople--The wine of Islam discovered--The first English coffee-house--The republic of coffee : the Coffee Club of the Rota--Talking to strangers--Coffee with wings : the spread of the coffee-house--'Freedom of words' : Charles II and the challenge of the coffee-house--The coffee-house trade--Humours, anti-hypnoticks and caffeine--The free-school of ingenuity--The concourse of merchants--The philosopher in the coffee-house--The passing of the coffee-house--Angry young men and the espresso revolution--Epilogue : milk and sugar.
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