“A BRIEF HISTORY OF TEA” Roy Moxham (2003) Review | An informative history book around tea

★★★★☆ An informative history book around tea - which obviously focuses heavily on Britain, China and India. It is a nasty colonial history that we must not forget. 

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF TEA: 
Addiction Exploitation and Empire (Brief Histories)
Roy Moxham 2003
258 pages
Read in 2020.08

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Very informative, it calls itself "brief" because it's the name of this series but it's not that brief, don't take it lightly.

A history book around tea - which obviously focuses heavily on Britain, China and India.
How British spoiled and destroyed the moral of China, with the famous final blow with the Opium War, and how they took advantage of India completely and systematically, simply for the benefit of British. 
It is a nasty colonial history that we must not forget, that Britain today is based on. 

Almost the same fate as chocolate, it's originally outside the European vicinity, so they decided to move to Africa which is close enough for easy trade and of course the cheap labour.
Cheap tea is made closer to to Europe, in Kenya today.
 

🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽

●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●

A Brief History of Tea

●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
A Brief History of Tea

●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
A Brief History of Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire (English)