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A look at how humanity transformed history in its search for rare spices, stimulants, and intoxicants documents the drive for these substances that fueled journeys across the Atlantic to the "new world"
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"Schivelbusch fits seemingly commonplace popular trends within the wider frame of economic and political history "--Houston Phoenix
"A very pleasurable blend of historical detail, social analysis and
unusual discernment." --Philadelphia Inquirer
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"A very pleasurable blend of historical detail, social analysis and
unusual discernment." --Philadelphia Inquirer
ravagant 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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- PublisherPantheon
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0394579844
- ISBN 13 9780394579849
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages3
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