Introduction: A soldiers' tea party in Surrey
Part I. Anxious relations
"A China drink approved by all physicians" : setting the early modern tea table
The temperance tea table : making a sober consumer culture in the nineteenth century
"A little opium, sweet words, and cheap guns" : planting a global industry in Assam
Packaging China : advertising food safety in a global marketplace
Part II. Imperial tastes
Industry and empire : manufacturing imperial tastes in Victorian Britain
The planter abroad : building foreign markets in the fin-de-siecle
"Every kitchen an empire kitchen": the politics of imperial consumerism
"Tea revives the world" : selling vitality during the Depression
"Hot drinks means much in the jungle" : tea in the service of war
Part III. Aftertastes
Leftovers? : an imperial industry at the end of empire
"Join the tea set" : youth, modernity, and the legacies of empire during the swinging sixties.