Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and
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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.
Author: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Format: Paperback, 256 pages, 132mm x 201mm, 210 g
Published: 1993, Random House USA Inc, United States
Genre: Social Studies: General
Description
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.
Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and