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Tastes of paradise : a social history of spices, stimulants, and intoxicants, Wolfgang Schivelbusch ; translated from the German by David Jacobson
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- Summary
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- It began with pepper and other spices, like cinnamon and nutmeg, some eight hundred years ago. Then came coffee, tea, and chocolate, followed by alcohol and opium--all articles of pleasure people in the Western world craved in order to escape from their humdrum lives and heighten their daily enjoyment. How humanity transformed its history in the course of finding the rare condiments, stimulants, intoxicants, and narcotics that helped to make life more tolerable is the
- Story of this rich and captivating book. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, in his engrossing journey through the centuries, documents with a wealth of startling information (and 125 illustrations) how our drive for the pleasure substances we can eat, drink, or inhale fueled the energies of the Old World with an explosive power that propelled mankind across the oceans and into a new age. The urge to please the palate and stimulate, benumb, or pleasure the senses arose at the dawn of
- The modern age to dovetail with the needs of the rising merchant class and the capitalism it spawned. How the hunger for spices mobilized the Occident's energies with an intensity matched only by today's greed for oil; how coffee became the drink of the bourgeois age as the beverage which, unlike alcohol, promotes clear thinking and hard work; how tobacco became coffee's ally in fine-tuning the fast-paced nervous sensibilities of the modern era--here is a rich human
- Array, an anecdotal history of ideas and beliefs, of fashions, fads, and rituals that orders a treasury of unknown facts in a new way to give us a fresh perspective on our own past and on our present
- Language
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- eng
- ger
- eng
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 236 pages, 3 unnumbered pages
- Note
- Translation of: Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft
- Contents
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- 1. Spices, or the Dawn of the Modern Age
- 2. 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
- 3. Chocolate, Catholicism, Ancien Regime
- 4. Tobacco: The Dry Inebriant. The Evolution of Smoking: Pipe, Cigar, Cigarette. The Social and Spatial Expansion of Smoking. Snuff in the Eighteenth Century
- 5. The Industrial Revolution, Beer, and Liquor
- 6. Rituals
- 7. Drinking Places. The Coming of Counters and Bars
- 8. The Artificial Paradises of the Nineteenth Century. Opium, the Proletariat, and Poetry. Opium and Colonialism. The New Tolerance
- Isbn
- 9780394579849
- Label
- Tastes of paradise : a social history of spices, stimulants, and intoxicants
- Title
- Tastes of paradise
- Title remainder
- a social history of spices, stimulants, and intoxicants
- Statement of responsibility
- Wolfgang Schivelbusch ; translated from the German by David Jacobson
- Language
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- eng
- ger
- eng
- Summary
-
- It began with pepper and other spices, like cinnamon and nutmeg, some eight hundred years ago. Then came coffee, tea, and chocolate, followed by alcohol and opium--all articles of pleasure people in the Western world craved in order to escape from their humdrum lives and heighten their daily enjoyment. How humanity transformed its history in the course of finding the rare condiments, stimulants, intoxicants, and narcotics that helped to make life more tolerable is the
- Story of this rich and captivating book. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, in his engrossing journey through the centuries, documents with a wealth of startling information (and 125 illustrations) how our drive for the pleasure substances we can eat, drink, or inhale fueled the energies of the Old World with an explosive power that propelled mankind across the oceans and into a new age. The urge to please the palate and stimulate, benumb, or pleasure the senses arose at the dawn of
- The modern age to dovetail with the needs of the rising merchant class and the capitalism it spawned. How the hunger for spices mobilized the Occident's energies with an intensity matched only by today's greed for oil; how coffee became the drink of the bourgeois age as the beverage which, unlike alcohol, promotes clear thinking and hard work; how tobacco became coffee's ally in fine-tuning the fast-paced nervous sensibilities of the modern era--here is a rich human
- Array, an anecdotal history of ideas and beliefs, of fashions, fads, and rituals that orders a treasury of unknown facts in a new way to give us a fresh perspective on our own past and on our present
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1941-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Drinking customs
- Drug abuse
- Spices
- Manners and customs
- Alcoholism
- Drinking Behavior
- Spices
- Stimulation, Chemical
- Substance-Related Disorders
- Label
- Tastes of paradise : a social history of spices, stimulants, and intoxicants, Wolfgang Schivelbusch ; translated from the German by David Jacobson
- Note
- Translation of: Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-[237])
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Spices, or the Dawn of the Modern Age -- 2. 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 -- 3. Chocolate, Catholicism, Ancien Regime -- 4. Tobacco: The Dry Inebriant. The Evolution of Smoking: Pipe, Cigar, Cigarette. The Social and Spatial Expansion of Smoking. Snuff in the Eighteenth Century -- 5. The Industrial Revolution, Beer, and Liquor -- 6. Rituals -- 7. Drinking Places. The Coming of Counters and Bars -- 8. The Artificial Paradises of the Nineteenth Century. Opium, the Proletariat, and Poetry. Opium and Colonialism. The New Tolerance
- Control code
- 24702170
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 236 pages, 3 unnumbered pages
- Isbn
- 9780394579849
- Lccn
- 91050748
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1456365
- Label
- Tastes of paradise : a social history of spices, stimulants, and intoxicants, Wolfgang Schivelbusch ; translated from the German by David Jacobson
- Note
- Translation of: Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-[237])
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Spices, or the Dawn of the Modern Age -- 2. 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 -- 3. Chocolate, Catholicism, Ancien Regime -- 4. Tobacco: The Dry Inebriant. The Evolution of Smoking: Pipe, Cigar, Cigarette. The Social and Spatial Expansion of Smoking. Snuff in the Eighteenth Century -- 5. The Industrial Revolution, Beer, and Liquor -- 6. Rituals -- 7. Drinking Places. The Coming of Counters and Bars -- 8. The Artificial Paradises of the Nineteenth Century. Opium, the Proletariat, and Poetry. Opium and Colonialism. The New Tolerance
- Control code
- 24702170
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 236 pages, 3 unnumbered pages
- Isbn
- 9780394579849
- Lccn
- 91050748
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1456365
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