Tastes of Paradise : A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants

, by SCHIVELBUSCH, WOLFGANG

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ISBN: 9780679744382 | 067974438X
Cover: Trade Paper
Copyright: 6/29/1993

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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.

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Preface
Spices, or the Dawn of the Modern Age	p. 3
Coffee and the Protestant Ethic	p. 15
A Backward Glance: The Significance of Alcohol before the Seventeenth Century	p. 22
The Great Soberer	p. 34
Arguments for and against Coffee	p. 39
From the Coffeehouse to the Coffee Party	p. 49
Coffee and Ideology	p. 71
England's Shift from Coffee to Tea	p. 79
Chocolate, Catholicism, Ancien Regime	p. 85
Tobacco: The Dry Inebriant	p. 96
The Evolution of Smoking: Pipe, Cigar, Cigarette	p. 111
The Social and Spatial Expansion of Smoking	p. 120
Snuff in the Eighteenth Century	p. 131
The Industrial Revolution, Beer, and Liquor	p. 147
Rituals	p. 167
Drinking Places	p. 188
The Coming of Counters and Bars	p. 194
The Artificial Paradises of the Nineteenth Century	p. 204
Opium, the Proletariat, and Poetry	p. 206
Opium and Colonialism	p. 215
The New Tolerance	p. 223
Afterword to the American Edition	p. 227
Bibliography	p. 229
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