Tastes of Paradise
by Schivelbusch, WolfgangEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-06-29
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
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.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Spices, or the Dawn of the Modern Age | p. 3 |
| Coffee and the Protestant Ethic | p. 15 |
| A Backward Glance: The Significance of Alcohol before the Seventeenth Century | p. 22 |
| The Great Soberer | p. 34 |
| Arguments for and against Coffee | p. 39 |
| From the Coffeehouse to the Coffee Party | p. 49 |
| Coffee and Ideology | p. 71 |
| England's Shift from Coffee to Tea | p. 79 |
| Chocolate, Catholicism, Ancien Regime | p. 85 |
| Tobacco: The Dry Inebriant | p. 96 |
| The Evolution of Smoking: Pipe, Cigar, Cigarette | p. 111 |
| The Social and Spatial Expansion of Smoking | p. 120 |
| Snuff in the Eighteenth Century | p. 131 |
| The Industrial Revolution, Beer, and Liquor | p. 147 |
| Rituals | p. 167 |
| Drinking Places | p. 188 |
| The Coming of Counters and Bars | p. 194 |
| The Artificial Paradises of the Nineteenth Century | p. 204 |
| Opium, the Proletariat, and Poetry | p. 206 |
| Opium and Colonialism | p. 215 |
| The New Tolerance | p. 223 |
| Afterword to the American Edition | p. 227 |
| Bibliography | p. 229 |
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