In Tea food historian Helen Saberi explores this rich and fascinating history. Saberi looks at the economic and social … Party; afternoon tea drunk by the British in India; and the 1913 creation of a tea dance or The Dansant that combined tea …. Caravans and Mediterranean Shores -- 5. Tea Comes to the West -- 6. India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia -- 7. Tea Today and Tomorrow …

and Japan. But the European merchants introduced it to the global world and brought tremendous changes to its taste and … century, only the Chinese variety of tea was known to the tea drinking world and the Chinse traders and farmers began to sell … strategy of the Europeans but also changed the political economy of many Asian colonies including India. So far most of the …

conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India …Tea remains the world's most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented … the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and …