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

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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Weight	0.221325 kg
Dimensions	1.4732 × 13.208 × 20.0914 cm
by	Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Publisher	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year Published	1993-6-29
Imprint	Vintage
Publication City/Country	USA
ISBN 10	067974438X
About The Author	Wolfgang Schivelbusch was born in Berlin in 1941 and is a German scholar, historian, and author. In 2003 he was awarded the Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He currently lives in New York.

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