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OverviewThis book argues that coffeehouses and the coffee trade were central to the making of the Atlantic world in the century leading up to the American Revolution. Fostering international finance and commerce, spreading transatlantic news, building military might, determining political fortunes and promoting status and consumption, coffeehouses created a web of social networks stretching from Britain to its colonies in North America. As polite alternatives to taverns, coffeehouses have been hailed as ‘penny universities’; a place for political discussion by the educated and elite. Reynolds shows that they were much more than this. Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World 1650-1789, reveals that they simultaneously created a network for marine insurance and naval protection, led to calls for a free press, built tension between trade lobbyists and the East India Company, and raised questions about gender, respectability and the polite middling class. It demonstrates how coffeehouses served to create transatlantic connections between metropole Britain and her North American colonies and played an important role in the revolution and protest movements that followed. Full Product DetailsAuthor: E. Wesley Reynolds (Northwood University, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781350247253ISBN 10: 1350247251 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 19 October 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Part I: Coffee’s Transatlantic Society I. “Trifling,” An Urban Experience II. “Trifling” in the Colonies III.Murders, Officers, and Naval Headquarters Part II: Polishing Communities and Negotiating Empire IV. Coffee-Women, Licensure, and a Polite Public Sphere V. Coffee-Men, Lobbyists, and Conmen of Empire VI. Transatlantic News Feeds and Imagined Coffeehouse Publics Part III: Empire and Revolution VII. Empire, Free Association, and Slavery VIII. Bringing Down the Empire Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviewsE. Wesley Reynolds deftly maps the key role coffeehouses played in carrying ideas from print into practice through personal encounters among colonists. Long known as places to make deals, he shows in vivid detail how and why they also provided the venues where Americans made history. * William Anthony Hay, Professor, Mississippi State University, USA * E. Wesley Reynolds' innovative and richly sourced examination of anglophone coffeehouse culture both narrows and broadens the eighteenth-century Atlantic, and his interpretation of the multifaceted roles of these spaces is shaped by ironies that should speak loudly to a generation grappling itself with the energy released by modern information technology and social media. * Ian Crowe, Associate Professor of History, Belmont Abbey College, USA * E. Wesley Reynolds deftly maps the key role coffeehouses played in carrying ideas from print into practice through personal encounters among colonists. Long known as places to make deals, he shows in vivid detail how and why they also provided the venues where Americans made history. --William Anthony Hay, Professor, Mississippi State University, USA E. Wesley Reynolds' innovative and richly sourced examination of anglophone coffeehouse culture both narrows and broadens the eighteenth-century Atlantic, and his interpretation of the multifaceted roles of these spaces is shaped by ironies that should speak loudly to a generation grappling itself with the energy released by modern information technology and social media. --Ian Crowe, Associate Professor of History, Belmont Abbey College, USA Author InformationE. Wesley Reynolds is Adjunct Instructor of History at Northwood University, USA. He was awarded his PhD from Central Michigan University, USA, in partnership with the University of Newcastle, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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