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eBook
Tea
2023
Overview
In Tea ,
James R. Fichter reveals that despite the so-called Boston Tea
Party in 1773, two large shipments of tea from the East India
Company survived and were ultimately drunk in North
America. Their survival shaped the politics of the years
ahead, impeded efforts to reimburse the company for the tea lost in
Boston Harbor, and hinted at the enduring potency of consumerism in
revolutionary politics.
Tea protests were widespread in 1774, but so were tea
advertisements and tea sales, Fichter argues. The protests were
noisy and sometimes misleading performances, not clear signs that
tea consumption was unpopular. Revolutionaries vilified tea in
their propaganda and prohibited the importation and consumption of
tea and British goods. Yet merchant ledgers reveal these goods were
still widely sold and consumed in 1775. Colonists supported
Patriots more than they abided by non-consumption. When Congress
ended its prohibition against tea in 1776, it reasoned that the ban
was too widely violated to enforce. War was a more effective means
than boycott for resisting Parliament, after all, and as rebel arms
advanced, Patriots seized tea and other goods Britons left behind.
By 1776, protesters sought tea and, objecting to its high price,
redistributed rather than destroyed it. Yet as Fichter demonstrates
in Tea , by then the commodity was not a symbol of the
British state, but of American consumerism.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773
/ Causes
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
/ HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
/ New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
/ Patriots
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism
/ Protest movements-United States-History-18th century
/ protests
/ Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
/ Tea
/ Tea trade-Political aspects-United States-History-18th century
/ Tea-Political aspects-United States-History-18th century
/ United States-History-Revolution, 1775-1783-Causes
ISBN
9781501773211, 1501773216, 9781501773235, 1501773232, 1501773224, 9781501773228
