Indeholder "Illustrations", "Preface", "Note", "Chapter 1. Ceylon Tea in its Island Home", "Chapter 2. The Plantation System is Born", "Chapter 3. How Tea Came to Ceylon", "Chapter 4. The Loolecondera Story", "Chapter 5. The Collapse of Coffee - What next?", "First Interlude: The Men of '75", "Chapter 6. Tea Takes Over", "Chapter 7. The Hard Way in Field and Factory", "Chapter 8. Buyers and Sellers in Colombo - I", "Chapter 9. Buyers and Sellers in Colombo - II", "Chapter 10. And So to Mincing Lane", "Chapter 11. The Planters Get Organised", "Chapter 12. The Birth of Ceylon Tea Promotion", "Second Interlude: The Chasm: 1914-1918", "Chapter 13. How the Slump was Met", "Chapter 14. Under Pressure in a Changing World", "Chapter 15. Rivals and Customers Today", "Chapter 16. At the Sign of the Lion", "Epilogue: Old Acres, New Men", "Appendix 1. The Morice Report", "Appendix 2. The Baring Correspondence", "Appendix 3. The Grading of Ceylon Tea", "Appendix 4. Statistical Tables", "Appendix 5. Estates Mentioned in the Text", "Bibliography", "Index".

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