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.
- ISBN10 0394579844
- ISBN13 9780394579849
- Publish Date 7 July 1992
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Pantheon Books Inc
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 3
- Language English