List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I: Coffee’s Transatlantic Society
I. “Trifling,” An Urban Experience
II. “Trifling” in the Colonies
III.Murders, Officers, and Naval Headquarters
Part II: Polishing Communities and Negotiating Empire
IV. Coffee-Women, Licensure, and a Polite Public Sphere
V. Coffee-Men, Lobbyists, and Conmen of Empire
VI. Transatlantic News Feeds and Imagined Coffeehouse Publics
Part III: Empire and Revolution
VII. Empire, Free Association, and Slavery
VIII. Bringing Down the Empire
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index