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Indulge in history’s pleasures: spices, coffee, and tobacco transformed society.
Tastes of Paradise
A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants
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256 pages
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7 September 1993
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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. Illustrations.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679744382 |
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| ISBN-10: | 067974438X |
| Author: | Wolfgang Schivelbusch |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 7 September 1993 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 132mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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About The Author
Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Wolfgang Schivelbusch was born in Berlin in 1941 and is a German scholar, historian, and author. In 2003 he was awarded the Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He currently lives in New York.
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