Introduction: consumer revolutions -- The English commercial empire expands -- The rise of a "tea-fac'd generation …" -- Politicizing American consumption -- The global dimensions of the American tea crisis -- Repatriating tea in revolutionary America … -- Chinese tea and American commercial independence -- Conclusion …

Introduction -- The Foundations of Teaways in Japan and the United States -- Tea Amidst Civil Wars -- Making Japan Tea … -- The Midwest-: Green Tea Country -- The Black Tea Wave Hits America -- Daily Cups Defined-: Black Tea in the United States …"Today, Americans are some of the world's biggest consumers of black teas. In Japan, green tea, especially sencha, is …