《茶叶与帝国》内容简介
茶叶一直是世界上最受欢迎的商品之一。几个世纪以来，种植、销售茶叶所带来的收益为战争提供了资金，推动了殖民活动，而茶叶的栽种也在土地使用、劳动力制度、市场运作和社会等级制度等方面带来了巨大的变化，这些变化至今尚存。本书以历史的眼光深入审视了男男女女是如何通过在欧洲、亚洲、北美洲和非洲的茶产业来改变全球的口味和习惯的。
作者埃丽卡•拉帕波特在本书中指出，17—20世纪，茶产业与大英帝国的边界是重叠的，但从未完全一致。她还强调了使大英帝国能够主导但从未完全控制全球茶叶的生产、贸易和消费的经济、政治和文化力量。她还深入研究了欧洲人是如何接受、挪用和改变中国茶文化，以在英国及其他全球市场建立广泛的茶叶需求，并在南亚和非洲建立种植园经济的。茶产业是最早的殖民产业之一，商人、种植者、推广者和零售商利用帝国资源为全球广告和政治游说买单。茶叶激发出的商业模式至今仍然存在，并且对理解政治和宣传如何影响国际经济至关重要。
作者简介
作者
埃丽卡•拉帕波特（ErikaRappaport），加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉分校历史学教授。她是《为快乐而购物》（ShoppingforPleasure）的作者和《消费行为（ConsumingBehaviors）的合著者。
译者
宋世锋，70后，曾专业研究国际关系，目前就职于新闻机构，爱好世界史、军事史，擅长深度调查写作和翻译。
Tea and Empire
Tea has always been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from the cultivation and sale of tea have financed wars and fueled colonization, and tea cultivation has brought about dramatic changes in land use, labor systems, market operations and social hierarchies that still exist today. This book provides an in-depth historical look at how men and women transformed global tastes and habits through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa.
Erica Rappaport points out that the boundaries of the tea industry and the British Empire in the 17th and 20th centuries overlapped, but never exactly aligned. She also highlighted the economic, political, and cultural forces that enabled the British Empire to dominate, but never fully control, the production, trade, and consumption of tea worldwide. She also delves into how Europeans embraced, appropriated, and altered Chinese tea culture to establish widespread tea demand in the UK and other global markets, and to build plantation economies in South Asia and Africa. The tea industry was one of the first colonial industries, with merchants, growers, promoters and retailers using imperial resources to pay for global advertising and political lobbying. Tea inspired business models that still exist today and are crucial to understanding how politics and propaganda influence the international economy.
About the author
author
Erica Rappaport is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of "ShoppingforPleasure" and co-author of "ConsumingBehaviors."
translator
Song Shifeng, born in the 1970s, majored in international relations and now works for a news agency. He loves world history and military history and is good at in-depth investigation, writing and translation.
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