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Tastes of paradise : a social history of spices, stimulants and intoxicants

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  • "Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft"
  • "Kan xiang liao, ka fei, yan cao, jiu ru he chuang zao ren jian de si mi tian tang"
  • "看香料, 咖啡, 烟草, 酒如何创造人间的私密天堂"
  • "Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft"@it

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  • "It began with pepper and other spices, like cinnamon and nutmeg, some eight hundred years ago. Then came coffee, tea, and chocolate, followed by alcohol and opium--all articles of pleasure people in the Western world craved in order to escape from their humdrum lives and heighten their daily enjoyment. How humanity transformed its history in the course of finding the rare condiments, stimulants, intoxicants, and narcotics that helped to make life more tolerable is the."
  • "Array, an anecdotal history of ideas and beliefs, of fashions, fads, and rituals that orders a treasury of unknown facts in a new way to give us a fresh perspective on our own past and on our present."
  • "SCHLAGWÖRTER<S>: Gewürze<S>. Kaffee<S>. Schokolade<S>. Tabak<S>. Rauchen<S>. Schnupfen<S>. Alkohol<S>. Rituale<S>. Kneipe<S>. Wirtshaus<S>. Rauschgifte<S>. Opium<S>"
  • "Story of this rich and captivating book. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, in his engrossing journey through the centuries, documents with a wealth of startling information (and 125 illustrations) how our drive for the pleasure substances we can eat, drink, or inhale fueled the energies of the Old World with an explosive power that propelled mankind across the oceans and into a new age. The urge to please the palate and stimulate, benumb, or pleasure the senses arose at the dawn of."
  • "The modern age to dovetail with the needs of the rising merchant class and the capitalism it spawned. How the hunger for spices mobilized the Occident's energies with an intensity matched only by today's greed for oil; how coffee became the drink of the bourgeois age as the beverage which, unlike alcohol, promotes clear thinking and hard work; how tobacco became coffee's ally in fine-tuning the fast-paced nervous sensibilities of the modern era--here is a rich human."

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  • "味觉乐园 : 看香料, 咖啡, 烟草, 酒如何创造人间的私密天堂"
  • "Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft : Eine Geschichte der Genussmittel"
  • "Paradiset, smaken och förnuftet : njutningsmedlens historia"@sv
  • "Histoire des stimulants"
  • "Storia dei generi voluttuari : spezie, caffè, cioccolato, tabacco, alcol e altre droghe"@it
  • "Storia dei generi voluttuari : spezie, caffè, cioccolato, tabacco, alcol e altre droghe"
  • "Paradieset, smaken och förnuftet njutningsmedlens historia"
  • "Tastes of Paradise : a social history of spices, stimulants and intoxicants"
  • "Historia de los estimulantes : el paraíso, el sentido del gusto y la razón"
  • "Historia de los estimulantes : el paraíso, el sentido del gusto y la razón"@es
  • "Tastes of paradise : a social history of spices, stimulants and intoxicants"@en
  • "Storia dei generi voluttuari : spezie, caffè, cioccolato, tabacco, e altre droghe"@it
  • "Wei jue le yuan : kan xiang liao, ka fei, yan cao, jiu ru he chuang zao ren jian de si mi tian tang"
  • "Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft"
  • "Paradiset, smagen og fornuften : nydelsesmidlernes historie"@da
  • "Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft : eine Geschichte der Genussmittel"
  • "Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft eine Geschichte der Genussmittel"
  • "Tastes of paradise : a social history of spices, stimulants, and intoxicants"
  • "Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft eine Geschichte der Genußmittel"
  • "Keyif verici maddelerin tarihi cennet, tat ve mantık"
  • "Das Paradies der Geschmack und die Vernunft"
  • "Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft : e. Geschichte d. Genussmittel"
  • "Historia de los estimulantes el paraíso, el sentido del gusto y la razón"
  • "Keyif verici maddelerin tarihi: cennet, tat ve mantık"@tr
  • "Tastes of paradise a social history of spices, stimulants, and intoxicants"@en
  • "Tastes of paradise a social history of spices, stimulants, and intoxicants"
  • "Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft : eine Geschichte der Genußmittel"
  • "Paradiset, smagen og fornuften nydelsesmidlernes historie"

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