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Tastes of Paradise : A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants Paperback - 1993
by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
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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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- Title Tastes of Paradise : A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants
- Author Wolfgang Schivelbusch
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date 1993
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # G067974438XI4N10
- ISBN 9780679744382 / 067974438X
- Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.05 x 5.16 x 0.52 in (20.45 x 13.11 x 1.32 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Drug abuse, Spices
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92050603
- Dewey Decimal Code 394.12
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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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- Publishers Weekly, 05/17/1993, Page 0