History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire

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Tea: A Magnanimous Perspective
Tea, Tea and More Tea
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Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire
Roy Moxham
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ASIN: 0786712279

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Tea came late to popularity in England—after its arrival in Portugal, Holland, and France—but it quickly became a national obsession. And business. Tea gardens and tea shops sprang up everywhere in seventeenth-century England. Demand soon spread to the colonies, where the heavy taxation on tea led to smuggling on a massive scale and, in the New World, cost England her American empire. Tea also drove the British to war with China, to guarantee the supply of pekoe, and it prompted colonists to clear jungles in India, Ceylon, and Africa for huge tea plantations. In time the cultivation of tea would subject more than one million laborers to wretched, often inhuman working conditions. Hundreds of thousands of them would die for the commodity that for four centuries propelled Britain’s economy and epitomized the reach of its empire. Bringing colorful detail and narrative skill to this history, author Roy Moxham—once a tea planter himself—maps the impact of a monumental and imperial British enterprise. In this book, he offers a fully fascinating, and frequently shocking, tale of England’s tea trade—of the lands it claimed, the people it exploited, the profits it garnered, and the cups it filled.

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Tea: A Magnanimous Perspective.......2007-01-19

I agree with the comments already posted. My love for tea began with a trip to England and France 5 years ago, then India in Jan '06. I have over 45 pounds of loose tea, and have tried over 150 different teas. Reading this book changed how i felt while drinking tea. This "took some of the fun" out of tea drinking for me. I am more aware of the economic hardships tea pickers endure, and the horrid conditions they suffered for decades. I am now getting into Fair Trade/Organic loose teas, and try to educate people/buyers at the gourmet food store i work at. If you think you know tea, read this book! It will open your eyes, and maybe push you into some action.

Tea, Tea and More Tea.......2006-11-02

I found the book to be a fascinating look (from a British prospective) and the history of tea. From the plant's beginnings in China to its spread to India and then Africa it's all there. What is different is the majority of the book is dedicated to the overwhelming suffering of the people who grew and harvested the tea from the plantations. Even the Chinese suffered as the British sought to balance the trade imbalance by hooking the Chinese on opium, with devastating effects. One problem I do have is that the author spends so much of the book on the suffering of the growers that his very interesting personal story is cut off. It's as if he was told he had 272 pages and no more. I can't see how the proof-readers and editors went to press with such a hang at the end. This is the reason I give the book 4 stars. Overall it's a great book; just don't expect to find out what happens to the author at the plantation he was managing in Africa.

Engaging book.......2005-11-05

Roy Moxham's book on Tea is an absorbing read, and is peppered with very useful information and traces the history of tea. Perhaps, Moxham has started off a trend of sorts on single commodity books. His first was about salt and the great hedge of India. In that book his focus was more on the hedge, and less on salt. However in this book is focus is exclusively on tea and how it made its way to the western world.

Moxham's stint as a tea-planter in Africa certainly helps him to gain keen insights into this drink, that is beloved to so many of us. A cup of tea is meant to soothe your jangled nerves, and comfort you. But, what you did not know is that this comfort drink went through a bloody and dark period when it was introduced into Great Britain.

The book is rich with details, and Moxham's love for this plant comes through clearly. After reading the book, everytime I drink a cup of tea I look at the drink with a different perspective. We often forget the hard work that goes into making this comfort drink easily available to us.

The British Love Affair with Tea .......2005-10-04

Tea plantations are beautiful and the tea industry has an antiquarian charm. The author, Roy Moxham. captures some of that charm in this book -- but doesn't neglect describing the seamy side of British colonialism in India, China, Sri Lanka, and Africa. Moxham doesn't go much into botanical descriptions of tea or growing and harvesting techniques, but focuses on the history of tea consumption and production.

Moxham catalogs the growing addiction of the British to tea in the 18th century and the efforts of British colonialists to grow the stuff in the 19th and 20th century. The story of tea growing in the Assam district of India is dirty indeed -- typical of colonial ventures around the world. Some of the stories of the exploitation of workers during the early days of tea growing are horrific. The author also describes briefly the principal tea dealers in England, past and present, and their marketing techniques. So addicted are Britains to the daily 'cuppa' that tea during World Wars of the Twentieth Century was considered a vital commodity.

One of the more interesting sections of the book was the author's brief description of his work on a tea estate in Malawi (Nyasaland) in the 1960s. The book concludes abruptly as he finishes his first year on the estate, giving the impression that a sequel may be in the works.

This is a good little book with a few illustrations and maps, a list of the various kinds of tea, and a good bibliography for those inspired to dig more deeply into the subject.

Smallchief

A Thoroughly Fascinating Book.......2004-08-05

I borrowed this book from my local library to read on vacation. Once I started it, I found it hard to put down. Mr. Moxham made even the mundane parts of tea's history fascinating. I felt as if I had gone back in time and witnessed the many incidents he relayed. I particularly enjoyed how he opened and closed the book with his own experience on a tea plantatation in Africa in the early 1960s. This book was a real historical eye-opener for me on many counts, as well as entertaining and well written. If you enjoy your tea and history, I highly recommend you read this book!

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A Must Read for Evryone who wants to know the whole story of Tea
Drinking Tea is a Guilty Pleasure
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An Immoderate View of a Moderate Brew

The Empire Of Tea
Alan Macfarlane , Iris MacFarlane , and The Overlook Press
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ASIN: 1585674931

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From the fourth century B.C. in China, where tea was used as an aid in Buddhist meditation, to the Boston Tea Party in 1773, when its destruction became a rousing symbol of the American Revolution, to its present-day role as the single most consumed beverage on the planet, The Empire of Tea explores the effects of the humble Camelia plant—both tragic and liberating—in the history of civilization. Alan MacFarlane explains, among other things, how tea became the world's most prevalent addiction, its use as an instrument of imperial control, and how the cultivation of tea led to the invention of machines and technology during the industrial revolution.

The Empire of Tea also incorporates personal stories of the people whose lives have been affected by their contact with the global obsession with tea, including the elegantly detailed account of Iris MacFarlane about her life on a tea estate in the Indian province of Assam, the world's center of tea cultivation. A fascinatingly tour of the world's great tea cultures—Japan, China, India, France, the United Kingdom, and others—The Empire of Tea brings into sharp focus one of the forces that have shaped history.

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A Must Read for Evryone who wants to know the whole story of Tea.......2006-01-26

At last a book on tea, which describes the whole story with all the fascination and romance of the tea plant, and the industry it developed and much more. "Tea is more than just a drink. Over the last two thousands years this humble camellia tree has grown into one of the most powerful social and economic forces known to man." Thus starts MacFarlan'e book "Green Gold, The Empire of Tea."

Tea industry has great affect not only on the East India Company but on the entire commerce of the British empire that question may be asked, "Was there a possible link between the rise of trading and tea drinking and the rapid spread of the British empire?"

The story of modern tea industry itself is very fascinating, and it practically started with the discovery of wild tea plant, Camellia Assamica, in the foothills of the eastern Himalayas, in the beautiful state of Assam, India in early nineteenth century. Since then the tea industry has contributed to the wealth and economy of many nations. Most importantly, it has contributed to the growth of the British Empire itself. But these growths in wealth and economy of nations were achieved at what cost? Tea Industry had its mixed affect on the native people of Assam who were exposed to the benefits of the western culture on one hand but on the other hand they lost their most valuable thing, their political independence because of it. In fact, the growth of the modern tea industry is intricately intertwined with the history and culture of the Assamese people during the British colonialism in the nineteenth century. That story is very sensitively captured in the book by the authors.

Like the expansion of the British Empire with its colonialism, the growth of the modern tea industry itself is an outcome of the western concept of perpetual economic progress by exploitation of nature by man, a concept quite foreign to the Orient till the other day. Thus Tea industry, like coffee and sugarcane, had its conflicts and victims, and if every success story has a dark side, the growth of tea industry in Assam and the growth of the British Empire has also has its dark side. It may be very well argued that it is for tea industry that the people of Assam not only lost their independence but also are fast loosing their cultural identity. To understand this sensitive story, one will have to live in Assam and while trying to understand the tea industry must also try to understand the Assamese society from inside. And that is what Mrs. MacFarlane and her son, the co-authors of the book did. Mrs. Iris MacFarlane was a widow a tea planter in Assam, and while spending their lives in tea gardens in Assam, they have encountered the Assamese culture closely.

MacFarlanes reflect that history of annexation of Assam by the British: "On March 13, 1824 the British marched slowly up from Calcutta, guns mounted on elephants, to take Assam.... The newly appointed Commissioner David Scott was reassuring, "We are not forced into your country by the thirst of conquest, but are forced in our defense.."...And that was the beginning of how Assam lost its independence. It sounded like almost the American soldiers marching to take Iraq about two hundred years later. The British were good administrators, and they took it upon themselves to replace the old style tax collection system of Assam by their own. "The relaxed Ahom methods of tax collection in service or produce was replaced by an army of revenue `farmers' tramping the country bearing demand papers totally incomprehensible to the illiterate peasantry...The Marwaries, the merchant moneylenders of Rajasthan saw their chance to fish in troubled waters....The situation was such that Maniram Dewan one of the few rich entrepreneur of Assam had to describe the situation as `living in the belly of a tiger'. He was one who first supported the British but later was so disillusioned when he found himself being excluded from generous land deals offered to the Europeans. The British it seems wanted to have and eat the cake at the same time. "The British declared that nobody owned the forest which they declared wasteland, and which they were prepared to rent out at very low rates, but only in blocks of a hundred acres. No Assamese peasants could take up their generous offers. ... The puppet king, Purandar Singha never had a chance. When tea plant was discovered the British found that they had given him the wrong bit of the country, the region where tea grew." The rest is history. Shrewd administrator as they were, the British took the Upper Assam from king Purandar Singha because he defaulted in paying the annual tribute of Rs 50000 equivalent to US$ 1000. And that is how Assam lost its political independence forever. However that is not all.

MacFarlanes write, "The people of Assam were not consulted and it might seem strange that none of them objected to the selling of their country to foreigners, to seeing their forests disappear under thousands of acres of spiky green tea bushes, the profits of which went to Calcutta and London. .... They had to do that because as MacFarlane put it, "The strength of the Assamese was also their weakness when it came to putting up resistance to the newly arrived rulers. Unlike the rest of Indians, they had no strong caste allegiances: ...There were no outcastes, no women in purdah, there was no mechanism for corporate bargaining or setting up solid resistance to what was happening. Relatively crime free, caste free, self sufficient in basics of life, the Assamese saw themselves being pushed aside as Europeans, Bengalis, Marwaris, Sikhs poured in . There was little they could do, but for doing that little they were always described as spineless and lazy. From the administration point of view this was fine, from the tea planter's point of view this was irritating."

"In 1839 the way was clear to rent the whole of Assam to the highest bidder, and one came forward, calling itself "The Assam Company", a group of merchants formed in Great Winchester street in London. The people of Assam were not allowed to take part. The British learned a great bit about tea garden economy from wealthy Assamese entrepreneur like Maniram Dewan. However when his service was no longer required, he was isolated. Later he was hanged in a hastily conducted court on charge of treason during the Sepoy Mutiny on 1857." And that is how Assam lost its entrepreneurial spirit.

Since those days of Sepoy Mutiny the tea industry and Assam itself have come a long way. The British colonialism was over when India won independence in 1947, and Assam joined India as one of its states. Today Assam produces about 20% of world tea. However its problems of cultural subjugation and economic deprivation are not over. "The gap between the high life and huge profits of the British and the squalor and the misery of the laborers was most obscene in the nineteenth century." However even after India's independence, things actually have not improved much in favor of Assam. So much so that "in April 1979, a few young Assamese youths met in the ruined palace of the Ahom kings to talk of a free Assam for the benefits of its people." And that was how United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was born. After a prolonged struggle against the mighty Indian army, ULLFA today seem to be slowly melting away. However they still remain in the state as a strong insurgent group sometime running a parallel government in those unruly parts of the North East India.

This is how MacFarlanes conclude their essay, "Tea has been an enormous boon for many countries in the world. It should not be beyond the wit of richer nations and India herself, to ensure that a fairer amount of profits made from it, as well as from oil and gas, be returned to the people who work in Assam. Extreme actions and boycotting would put the jobs of hundreds of thousands of very people at risk. Yet fair trade, with profits with profits going to the producers, should be examined closely in relation to this plantation commodity. Just as it is being examined as a way of improving conditions in the production of cocoa, coffee, rubber, sugar and other tropical plantation crops, should be benefiting the tea laborers much more. It would only seem fair that some of the wealth generated by green gold, which has hitherto flowed elsewhere, should help the people of Assam."

This is a full-length book with more than 300 pages with many other interesting aspects and historical notes of the tea industry. It is gratifying and meaningful to note that MacFarlanes have donated the book :"To the people who will never read this book, the tea garden laborers of Assam."

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to know the whole story of modern tea industry and its affect in the land where it started, Assam and the North East India.

Drinking Tea is a Guilty Pleasure .......2005-10-26

Unlike a good cup of tea, this book does not satisfy. Rather than being a history of tea and tea drinking it is more a vehicle for the McFarlanes to purge their guilt of being a family who greatly benefited by their former attachment to the tea growing industry. A discussion of the condition of the tea worker over time is valid enough but this work is ultimately an exercise at excessive hand- wringing. For those looking for a more comprehensive history of tea, especially commentary on the origins of various blends and regional tastes, one must look elsewhere.

A must read for history buffs or fans of "biographies of things".......2005-08-14

If you can get over the political leanings of the authors, who clearly have a particularly unique perspective on the subject they're addressing, you'll find plenty of interesting information to entice even the casual tea-drinker to finishing this book.

Did you know that tea has natural anteseptic properties which can be passed from nursing mothers to babies, possibly providing an extra safeguard against infection?

Or that every single kind of tea in the world comes from the same plant - and only the location and processing change the flavor?

Or how tea became a "social equalizer" of sorts in class-concious Britain, as everyone from lords to factory workers had the unspoken right to a "tea break", which may have possibly contributed to the massive industrial expansion, by allowing workers to work longer with more energy due to the caffine?

See? Regardless of your politics, this remains a fascinating subject, and one that you can't deny had some affect on the history of not only the British Empire, but all the societies that have adopted it as more than a casual drink.

Fascinating.......2005-08-09

Overall, I found this book to be a fascinating account of just how important a role tea has played (and continues to play) in the history of the world. The introduction by Iris Macfarlane was a fine example of colonial literature that helped to put a human face on this vast subject. The author draws together many seemingly disparate elements in world history and shows the links between them in a way that I found thoroughly engrossing. While he did seem quite biased towards tea, I don't think his analysis of tea's impact is far off. An accessible history for the casual or scholarly observer.

It seems to have been previously published as "Green Gold" ISBN 0091883091.

An Immoderate View of a Moderate Brew.......2004-09-20

"The Empire of Tea," written by Cambridge University cultural anthropologist Alan MacFarlane, combines the general history of tea consumption, and its impact on civilization, with the particular history of tea production in the Indian state of Assam under the British Raj.

According to MacFarlane, consumption of tea was vital in sustaining the imperial population growth of China, Japan, and Great Britain. Boiling water for tea, the argument goes, destroyed many water-borne pathogens (cholera, etc.) that would otherwise have decimated these populations in the era before modern sewage treatment. Moreover, drinking tea (rather than alcoholic beverages, the only other alternative to "raw" water) avoids the harmful effects of overconsumption of alcohol. Thus it was, that Tea became, in Macfarlane's view, almost literally the fuel of the British Empire.

The author explains that tea's benefits came at a high cost, namely, the imperial depradations of Great Britain in their effort to obtain control over this vital resource. One example was the Opium War, which was fought to equalize the trade balance between Great Britain and China (basically, opium for tea). However, Macfarlane expends his greatest passion on the exploitation of native tea-workers in Assam. Several chapters sustain this argument, which seems motivated, at least in part, by the author's family connection to tea farming in that province.

It might fairly be argued that this book exaggerates both the benefits and the social costs of tea cultivation. On the plus side, the reader will come away with an increased appreciation of the large role which this seemingly ordinary beverage has played upon the world stage.

Edward Gibbon, (Twayne's English authors series, TEAS 159)

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Edward Gibbon, (Twayne's English authors series, TEAS 159)
Richard N Parkinson
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The Land of Green Tea
C.L. Baker
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This is the story of events leading to the first Chinese Opium War, recorded by Wyndham Baker in letters to his family. From the East India Company's Croydon training college, he goes out to India and thence, in response to the British passion for tea-drinking, to China with his Gunners, to set up the first tea factory in Canton - in payment for which the British shipped opium from India.

Small countries with their empires in coffee and tea.(Column): An article from: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal

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Small countries with their empires in coffee and tea.(Column): An article from: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
Jonathan Bell
Manufacturer: Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc.
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, published by Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc. on October 1, 1998. The length of the article is 3307 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Small countries with their empires in coffee and tea.(Column)
Author: Jonathan Bell
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Date: October 1, 1998
Publisher: Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc.
Volume: v170 Issue: n10 Page: p96(10)

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Rubber, tea and cacao,: With special sections on coffee, spices, and tobacco; (The Resources of the Empire, 1924)

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Rubber, tea and cacao,: With special sections on coffee, spices, and tobacco; (The Resources of the Empire, 1924)
W. A MacLaren
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The secret of history: How empire took its westward way. The king's daughters; or, The flight of David's line. Being the sequel to Tea Tephi (Our race. Series I)

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The secret of history: How empire took its westward way. The king's daughters; or, The flight of David's line. Being the sequel to Tea Tephi (Our race. Series I)
Charles Adiel Lewis Totten
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