Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Author , trans. from the German by Jefferson Chase. Holt $27.50 (448p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4421-8
This unusual study compares societies that lost major wars and survived, as opposed to being dismantled by their conquerors. Schivelbusch (Disenchanted Night, etc.) addresses the question of how the American South after 1865, France after 1871 and...
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Author, Schivelbusch, Author, David Jacobson, Translator Vintage Books USA $16 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-74438-2
This social history of pleasure-producing substances covers the Middle Ages to the modern era from the perch of an adroit and amiable Marxist sociology. Illustrations. (July)
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Author, David Jacobson, Translator Pantheon Books $25 (3p) ISBN 978-0-394-57984-9
This ``social history of spices, stimulants and intoxications'' covers the Middle Ages to the modern era from the perch of an adroit and amiable Marxist sociology. For instance, at its European debut in the 17th-century coffeehouse, coffee...
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