Tastes of Paradise A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants

Name: Tastes of Paradise A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants
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ISBN: 9780679744382

ISBN-10: 067974438X

ISBN-13: 9780679744382

Edition: N/A

Authors: Wolfgang Schivelbusch, David Jacobson

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From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting smoking it, Schivelbusch looks at how the appetite for pleasure transformed the social structure of the Old World. Illustrations.

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/29/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.99" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Preface



Spices, or the Dawn of the Modern Age



Coffee and the Protestant Ethic


A Backward Glance: The Significance of Alcohol before the Seventeenth Century


The Great Soberer


Arguments for and against Coffee


From the Coffeehouse to the Coffee Party


Coffee and Ideology


England's Shift from Coffee to Tea



Chocolate, Catholicism, Ancien Regime



Tobacco: The Dry Inebriant


The Evolution of Smoking: Pipe, Cigar, Cigarette


The Social and Spatial Expansion of Smoking


Snuff in the Eighteenth Century



The Industrial Revolution, Beer, and Liquor



Rituals



Drinking Places


The Coming of Counters and Bars



The Artificial Paradises of the Nineteenth Century


Opium, the Proletariat, and Poetry


Opium and Colonialism


The New Tolerance


Afterword to the American Edition


Bibliography