Historia de los estimulantes

By (author): "Wolfgang Schivelbusch"
Publish Date: 1980
Historia de los estimulantes
ISBN8433913905
ISBN139788433913906
AsinHistoria de los estimulantes
Original titleDas Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft : eine Geschichte der Genussmittel
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.