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The empire of tea : the remarkable history of the plant that took over the world
Macfarlane, Alan.
Adult Nonfiction GT2905 .M33 2004
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| Contents | Page |
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| Acknowledgements | p. vi |
| Introduction | p. viii |
| 1 - Iris Macfarlane: Memoirs of a Memsahib | p. 1 |
| Part I - Bewitched | |
| 2 - The Story of an Addiction | p. 30 |
| 3 - Froth of the Liquid Jade | p. 40 |
| 4 - Tea Comes to the West | p. 64 |
| Part II - Enslaved | |
| 5 - Enchantment | p. 78 |
| 6 - Replacing China | p. 98 |
| 7 - Green Gold | p. 118 |
| 8 - Tea Mania: Assam 1839-1880 | p. 138 |
| 9 - Empires of Tea | p. 166 |
| 10 - Industrial Tea | p. 188 |
| 11 - Tea Labour | p. 202 |
| Part III - Embodied | |
| 12 - Tea Today | p. 226 |
| 13 - Tea, Body and Mind | p. 254 |
| 14 - Bewitched Water | p. 274 |
| Notes | p. 287 |
| Bibliography | p. 295 |
| Index | p. 305 |
| List of Illustrations | |
| Iris MacFarlane and her children, Assam, 1950 | |
| A London Tavern, 1600 | |
| A traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony | |
| Clippers owned by the East India Tea Company, circa 1860 | |
| Horniman's Tea Advertisement 1880-1899 | |
| Tibetan men carrying brick tea from China, circa 1900 | |
| Elephants clearing a plantation, Assam, 1880 | |
| Pleasure Brand Advertisement, 1888 | |
| Mazawattee tea/John Bull advertisement, 1890 | |
| A typical Chinese plantation | |
| Henry Cotton, Chief Commissioner of Assam in 1896 | |
| Women working on plantation, circa 1990 | |
| A herbal pharmacopoeia in Tokyo | |
| Camellia Sinensis, 19th century | |
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