Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution
December 14 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The Boston Tea Party was a final spark for the American Revolution: the culminating political protest whose backlash would ultimately end in bloodshed on Lexington Green. But why was tea such a touchstone, and was it really as scorned as the Sons of Liberty claimed it to be?
Join James R. Fichter, Associate Professor of European and American Studies at the University of Hong Kong, for a look at the wider tea culture in North America, and how this seemingly simple plant became a symbol of a revolution, and of American consumerism.
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