| #691513 in Books | 2010-01-05 | Fabric type: paper | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.20 x.90 x6.10l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 352 pages | paperback | barely worn | no writing inside||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Very thorough discussion of the place of tobacco and chocolate|By Alice Grady|The author documents very carefully the history of these two substances from their cultivation and use in Central America to their spread to Europe and throughout the world. She emphasizes that Europe (the Spanish conquistadors etc.) certainly influenced (and changed) the ways of the Central American|||"Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures shows how the exchange between alien civilizations prefigured a revolution in taste that was both genuinely global and largely independent of the power dynamics of colonialism. . . . Norton creatively uses a wide rang
Before Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492, no European had ever seen, much less tasted, tobacco or chocolate. Initially dismissed as dry leaves and an odd Indian drink, these two commodities came to conquer Europe on a scale unsurpassed by any other American resource or product. A fascinating story of contact, exploration, and exchange in the Atlantic world, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures traces the ways in which these two goods of the Americas both changed a...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World | Marcy Norton. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
