Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and IntoxicantsFrom 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. |
Contents
Spices or the Dawn of the Modern Age | 3 |
Coffee and the Protestant Ethic | 15 |
The Significance or Alcohol before the Seventeenth Century | 22 |
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Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants Wolfgang Schivelbusch No preview available - 1993 |
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