The Empire of Tea by Alan Macfarlane

The Empire of Tea

Alan Macfarlane with Iris MacFarlane

308 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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From the fourth century B.C. in China, where tea was used as an aid in Buddhist meditation, to the Boston Tea Party in 1773, when its destruction became a rousing symbol of the American Revolution, to its present-day role as the single most consum...

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