Tea and empire
James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon
by T.M. Devine, Angela McCarthy
288 pages· 2017· ISBN 9781526123398
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This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, ‘father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’ in the nineteenth century, and examines the dark side of planting life including violence and conflict, oppression and despair.
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