00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862137500 Buklod 20181119144714.0 g||| | || || ta 181119s1993 nyua rb |000 0|eng d 067974438X (pbk.) 9780679744382 (pbk.) (iLib)UPBAG-00032148120 OLC BAG rda eng ger GT 2880 S3513 1993 Schivelbusch, Wolfgang 1941- author. Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft. English Tastes of paradise a social history of spices, stimulants, and intoxicants Wolfgang Schivelbusch ; translated from the German by David Jacobson. First Vintage Books edition. New York Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc. 1993. ©1992. xiv, 236 pages ilustrations 21 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) Spices, or the dawn of the modern age -- Coffee and the Protestant ethic -- Chocolate, Catholicism, ancien régime -- Tobacco: the dry inebriant -- Industrial Revolution, beer, and liquor -- Rituals -- Drinking places -- Artificial paradises of the nineteenth century. 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. Translation of: Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft. Drinking customs. Drug abuse. Spices. Manners and customs. Jacobson, David translator. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN GT 2880 S3513 1993 Book