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.
Author: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/29/1993
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.16w x 0.52d
ISBN13: 9780679744382
ISBN10: 067974438X
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Customs & Traditions
- History | World | General
- Social Science | Agriculture & Food (see also Political Science | Public Poli
Author: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/29/1993
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.16w x 0.52d
ISBN13: 9780679744382
ISBN10: 067974438X
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Customs & Traditions
- History | World | General
- Social Science | Agriculture & Food (see also Political Science | Public Poli
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.