| #491653 in Books | Marcy Norton | 2010-01-05 | Fabric type: paper | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.20 x.90 x6.10l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 352 pages | Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By S Polonski|Quick delivery and exactly what I needed.|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 sp|||"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...
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