Tastes of Paradise

Tastes of Paradise
Author: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1993-06-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780679744382

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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.


Tastes of Paradise
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-06-29 - Publisher: Vintage

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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 to
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Pages: 220
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Categories: Cooking
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Pages: 270
Authors: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-12-20 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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A Brief History of Drugs
Language: en
Pages: 199
Authors: Antonio Escohotado
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-05-01 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Bobos in Paradise
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: David Brooks
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-11 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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In his bestselling work of “comic sociology,” David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today’s upper class—those who have wed the bourgeois worl