Description: Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants by Wolfgang Schivelbusch Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New 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. Publisher Description It began with pepper and other spices, like cinnamon and nutmeg, some eight hundred years ago. Then came coffee, tea, and chocolate, followed by alcohol and opium--all articles of pleasure people in the Western world craved in order to escape from their humdrum lives and heighten their daily enjoyment. How humanity transformed its history in the course of finding the rare condiments, stimulants, intoxicants, and narcotics that helped to make life more tolerable is the story of this rich and captivating book. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, in his engrossing journey through the centuries, documents with a wealth of startling information (and 125 illustrations) how our drive for the pleasure substances we can eat, drink, or inhale fueled the energies of the Old World with an explosive power that propelled mankind across the oceans and into a new age. The urge to please the palate and stimulate, benumb, or pleasure the senses arose at the dawn of the modern age to dovetail with the needs of the rising merchant class and the capitalism it spawned. How the hunger for spices mobilized the Occidents energies with an intensity matched only by todays greed for oil; how coffee became the drink of the bourgeois age as the beverage which, unlike alcohol, promotes clear thinking and hard work; how tobacco became coffees ally in fine-tuning the fast-paced nervous sensibilities of the modern era--here is a rich human array, an anecdotal history of ideas and beliefs, of fashions, fads, and rituals that orders a treasury of unknown facts in a new way to give us a fresh perspective on our own past and on our present. Author Biography Wolfgang Schivelbusch is an independent scholar who divides his time between New York and Berlin. His books include "The Railway Journey" (California paperback, 1986), "Disenchanted Night" (California, 1988), and "Tastes of Paradise" (1992). Kelly Barry is a scholar and translator living in Baltimore. Details ISBN 067974438X ISBN-13 9780679744382 Title Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants Author Wolfgang Schivelbusch Format Paperback Year 1992 Pages 256 Publisher Vintage GE_Item_ID:137984613; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780679744382
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Book Title: Tastes of Paradise : a Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 1993
Topic: Specific Ingredients / Herbs, Spices, Condiments, Social History, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), History, Psychopathology / Addiction, Customs & Traditions
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Cooking, Social Science, Psychology, History
Item Weight: 7.7 Oz
Author: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
