(1) First encounters: the coffa-houses of Constantinople; ; (2) Kahveh-Kaneh and the wine of Islam; ; (3) Pasqua Rosee: the first coffee-house in Christendom; ; (4) The world of the coffee-house in the Restoration and early eighteenth century; ; (5) The preparation of coffee; ; (6) Mr Spectator and the moral reformation of the coffee-house; ; (7) Women and the coffee-house; ; (8) Coffee-houses and the institutions of commerce; ; (9) Nostalgia and decline: the coffee-house in the nineteenth century; ; (10) The coffee-house and the intellectual life of European culture; ; (11) Coffee and modernity; ; (12) Seattle-izing coffee: the revolution of Starbucks
Unusual and wide-ranging social history in the tradition of books on cod, coca-cola, salt, ice, etc. London in its colourful 17th and 18th-century heyday is at the centre of this story The London coffee-houses were a key factor in Britain's rapid commercial, political and scientific progress between 1650 and 1750
Markman Ellis was educated at the universities of Auckland and Cambridge, and now teaches 18th-century literature and culture at Queen Mary, University of London. He has published books on the sentimental novel and gothic fiction, and articles on many topics in 18th-century studies, including georgic poetry, slavery, kangaroos and lap-dogs.
THE COFFEE-HOUSE is everything it should be - careful, intelligent and embodying the spirit of its subject by being written for the digestion of the general public. It contains the perfect recipe of scholarship, stimulant and froth. - THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPHThis is a convincing and meticulous read, building an intriguing and engrossing picture of coffee's role in British society. And what a relief that this isn't yet another wide-ranging cherry-picking history of a commodity, but rather a close examination of how particular rooms shaped the British identity. There are plenty of incidental surprises, but the total picture is the revelation: something happened when coffee met the English Enlightenment and the result was an explosion of creativity.. - THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY...readable and scholarly account of an important and curiously neglected phenomenon. Rich in evocative detail... and strong on social, political and economic context, The Coffee House is a book for the coffee-lover and historian alike. - THE SPECTATOREllis's sober, rigorous narrative lucidly dovetails the political with the cultural, and is particularly engaging as it charts the convulsions of England through its early modernisation... Ellis unpicks the ideologies that have contributed so importantly to our entrenched beliefs in freedom of speech and in our political constitution. - THE DAILY TELEGR
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