Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World - Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger - Google Books

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Although tea had been known and consumed in China and Japan for centuries, it was only in the seventeenth century that Londoners first began drinking it. Over the next two hundred years, its stimulating properties seduced all of British society, as tea…