Displaying 1 of 1 1993 Format: Book Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, 1941-2023, author. Title: Tastes of paradise : a social history of spices, stimulants, and intoxicants / Wolfgang Schivelbusch ; translated from the German by David Jacobson. Edition: First Vintage books edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Vintage Books, 1993. Description: xiv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Summary: 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. Subjects: Drinking customs. Drug abuse. Spices. Manners and customs. Drug addiction. Other Author: Jacobson, David, 1964- translator. Other Title: Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft. English Notes: Translation of: Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft. Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236). Translation of: Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft. Contents: Spices, or the dawn of the modern age -- Coffee and the Protestant ethic -- Chocolate, Catholicism, ancien régime -- Tobacco: the dry inebriant -- Industrial Revolution, beer, and liquor -- Rituals -- Drinking places -- Artificial paradises of the nineteenth century. Web Site: Publisher description LCCN: 92050603 ISBN: 067974438X 9780679744382 067974438X (pbk.) Other Number: 27034685 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 81805 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 394.12 Schivelb Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
