A Taste for Empire and Glory by Philip Lawson - 9780860786368

Taylor & Francis Ltd

A Taste for Empire and GloryStudies in British Overseas Expansion, 16001800\nAuthor(s): Philip Lawson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Variorum\nISBN-13: 9780860786368, 978-0860786368\nSynopsis\nIn the decade and a half before his untimely death at 46, Philip Lawson had already achieved more than many historians. This posthumously published collection brings together his work on the British overseas expansion during the long 18th century and includes two previously unpublished essays. The first articles deal with general issues of approach and interpretation, with Canada and the thirteen colonies, and with India and the empire of tea. The final essays illustrate Anglo-Indian relations and the tea trade, showing the relationship between the establishment of Indian tea plantations, the growth of the tea trade, and the political and cultural impact of tea drinking on the British and their colonists. Taken together these studies make an out.