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Weinberg, Bennett Alan.

The world of caffeine : the science and culture of the world's most popular drug / Bennett Alan Weinberg, Bonnie K. Bealer.

New York : Routledge, 2001.

xxi, 394 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

In a natural, cultural, and artistic history of our favorite mood enhancer, the authors show how caffeine was discovered, its early uses, and the unexpected parts it has played in medicine, religion, painting, poetry, learning, and love. 50 halftones & line drawings.

Caffeine.

Tea -- History.

Cocoa -- History.

Bealer, Bonnie K.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Caffeine in history -- Coffee : Arabian origins -- Tea : Asian origins -- Cacao : American origins -- Europe wakes up to caffeine -- Monks and men-at-arms : Europe's first caffeine connections -- The caffeine trade supplants the spice trade : tea and coffee come to the west -- The late adopters : Germany, Russia, and Sweden join in -- Judgments of history : medical men debate caffeine -- Postscript : why did caffeine come when it came? -- The culture of caffeine -- Islands of caffeine (1) : Japan : the tradition of tea, the novelty of coffee -- Islands of caffeine (2) : England : caffeine and Empire -- The endless simmer : America and the twentieth century do caffeine -- Caffeine culture and Le fin de Millénaire -- The natural history of caffeine -- Caffeine in the laboratory -- Caffeine and the plant kingdom : "My vegetable love" -- Caffeine and health -- Caffeine and the body : health effects, reproductive issues, and fitness -- Thinking over caffeine : cognition, learning, and emotional well-being -- Caffeine dependence, intoxication, and toxicity.

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