Tea, coffee, chocolate, tobacco, sugar, rice and potatoes are now mundane and routine parts of European everyday life. By 1800 these different areas of the globe were tied together into a new set of relationships, which changed what was grown, made and consumed in each part of the world. The aim of this chapter is to understand these changes by considering the historical geographies of globalisation.
Tea, coffee, chocolate, tobacco, sugar, rice and potatoes are now mundane and routine parts of European everyday life. By 1800 these different areas of the globe were tied together into a new set of relationships, which changed what was grown, made and consumed in each part of the world. The aim of this chapter is to understand these changes by considering the historical geographies of globalisation.
Tea, coffee, chocolate, tobacco, sugar, rice and potatoes are now mundane and routine parts of European everyday life. By 1800 these different areas of the globe were tied together into a new set of relationships, which changed what was grown, made and consumed in each part of the world. The aim of this chapter is to understand these changes by considering the historical geographies of globalisation.