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18th Century Tea Trade, Leisure Time, and the Spread of Knowledge
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on August 21, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
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leisure, distant, Enlightenment, person, sphere, Diderot, powerful, connections, Eurasia, European, coffee, Royal, tropical, Cook, Pacific, ordination, peoples, Buddhist, supply, news, scattered, larger, science, books, saw, sugar, kangaroo, heroic, booming, Hawaii, inner, commodity, Asia, secrets, world, monopoly
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17th century
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spaces in Afro-               began to be filled in by competing empires
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colonization of                lands increased this velocity
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particularly after:
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1644 China: beginning of Qing dynasty
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1648 Europe: signing of the Peace of Westphalia
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regimes resolved            conflicts, but this intensified the external conflicts with other empires
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led to a shift in the way peoples        each other
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e.g. the product: tea
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unique since it was a                  commodity such as coffee or sugar, but its major source was not in the New World
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only produced in a few places in         
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China enjoyed for a time a                  in tea exports for global consumption
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shipped out of China by                  monks
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they knew the characteristics of tea, e.g. to allow them to stay awake at night learning for their own                      exams
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they guarded the                of tea production very carefully
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they controlled              which insured that tea was not cheap, because a prestige good
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by 18th century, tea exports in China were               
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one pound of tea was being imported to England per             
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how is tea relevant in the way peoples saw each other:
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to think like a global historian is to consider                        that at first may not seem like they have an obvious connection with each other
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what was the connection between a tropical                    like tea, and intellectual transformations that went on in another part of the world
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tea was intimately related to the birth of                time
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the tea house
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like the              house, the tea house was accompanied by the gathering of men who exchanged the          of the day, read books, circulated magazines, and talked about ideas, discoveries, science, and other people and peoples
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it was the tea house and the activities that went on inside and around it that was associated most closely with the birth of the public             , and from this forum will spring new ideas
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one of these sets of ideas we call the                            and it was nurtured by the cocktail of these newly globally imported commodities of tea, and coffee and           
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this widespread circulation of knowledge and ideas led to the concept of global               
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areas such as China and India would be drawn increasingly into a                  orbit
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changed the core of Europe by creating new sources of wealth and power
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the production of           
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became articles that people would produce and sell in the market place
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a press revolution
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              's encyclopedie
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28 volumes
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a phenomenon of the ages
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the beginning of the mass production of books
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the commodification and circulation of knowledge itself
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division of labor to produce books
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lowered the cost of magazines and books to fuel this print revolution
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l'encyclopedie
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claimed to collect "all the knowledge                    over the face of the earth"
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libraries
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book-lending clubs
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now sailing voyages to the New World had a different purpose
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not as de Gama in the late 15th century, to sail into Calcutta in order to skim the wealth off of another                  society
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18th century voyages were launched increasingly to study other places, biology, zoology and the                who who lived in those places
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they were scientific expeditions to understand the           
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to bring home knowledge for mass consumption and commodified
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e.g. Captain James         
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galvanized the European imagination as the              scientist
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sponsored by the            Society
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new species, exotic animals, plants, bugs
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what the giraffe once was to Chinese, the                  was to 18th century British biologists and zoologists
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Cook also brought back people, natives, particularly in the South               
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ran into problems with             , where he tried to take local chieftains back but was attacked and killed by the local natives
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Cook was only an example of a              pattern of Europeans to reach out into the world and study it, to systematize knowledge and classify it into categories

People:

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British explorer, navigator, cartographer, achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian islands
  • captain in the Royal Navy
  • three voyages

Spelling Corrections:

intimitely ⇒ intimately
chieftans ⇒ chieftains
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