This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company's monopoly on the tea trade in 1833.

Book Information
ISBN 9781138757622
Author Markman Ellis
Format Hardback
Page Count 294
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd