Ep. 140-13 | Don't Tax My Tea
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2015
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The tea trade transforms into an entire industry and becomes the most important traded commodity of the British East India Company. Twining's emerges onto the scene along with coffeehouse culture where tea was also to be had. Over in the American colonies, the Yanks embrace tea as much as the Brits. Milk and sugar with tea become all the rage. And when the Her Majesty's government starts hitting up the American colonists with the Indemnity Acts of 1767, the Townshend Acts in 1770, and finally, the Tea Act of 1773, it leads to the Bostin Tea Party and an eventual "parting of ways" between the colonists and their British masters.
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| 1:04.0 | We're going to look at the setup for some of the historical drama in the world of T during the 18th and 19th centuries. |
| 1:12.0 | Although T made its debut in the Hague in 1610, it wasn't until the early |
| 1:17.2 | part of the 1700s that tea had taken Britain by storm, and by extension this meant to the American colonies as well. By the time of Queen Anne, |
| 1:26.5 | 1702 to 1714, T had permeated all the rigid strata of British society. And like it was in China, the passion for tea |
| 1:36.8 | started with the Royals and the rich first. Perhaps it began as a pretentious social function, but goodness overcame pretension and the pleasure of enjoying a cupa. |
| 1:49.0 | Quickly one over the hearts of whoever came in contact with it. By the 1720s the demand began to rise steeply |
| 1:56.8 | as awareness about tea set in amongst those who were neither rich nor royal. By 1730, two years before George Washington was born, |
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