Rappaport, Erika

Erika D. Rappaport is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her PhD from Rutgers University in 1993. Rappaport is the author of the award-winning Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End (Princeton 2000) and numerous articles and essays on the history of gender, urban and consumer culture in Victorian and Edwardian England. She is completing a study of British consumer culture from the 17th to the 20th century, which uses tea as a lens to examine how British imperial businesses shaped the modern global economy and