At the Amsterdam
Steven Shapin: A Wakefull and Civill Drink, 20 April 2006
The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffee House
by Brian Cowan.
Yale, 364 pp., £25, January 2006,0 300 10666 1 Show More
by Brian Cowan.
Yale, 364 pp., £25, January 2006,
Coffee House: A Cultural History
by Markman Ellis.
Phoenix, 304 pp., £8.99, November 2005,0 7538 1898 1 Show More
by Markman Ellis.
Phoenix, 304 pp., £8.99, November 2005,
“... republican utopias, you could catch James Harrington at Miles’s; if you wanted literary wit, John Dryden and his mates would be at Will’s; and in the 1710s you could join in polite conversation with Addison and Steele at Button’s. If you wanted to gamble, the Young Man’s was a good bet; if experimental natural philosophy was your thing, Royal ... ”