Tastes of paradise : a social history of spices, stimulants, and intoxicants, Wolfgang Schivelbusch ; translated from the German by David Jacobson

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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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a social history of spices, stimulants, and intoxicants

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Wolfgang Schivelbusch ; translated from the German by David Jacobson

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• Tastes of paradise : a social history of spices, stimulants, and intoxicants

Publication

• New York, Pantheon Books, ©1992

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Translation of: Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-[237])

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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

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24702170

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25 cm

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1st American ed.

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xiv, 236 pages, 3 unnumbered pages

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9780394579849

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91050748

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illustrations

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