The world of caffeine : the science and culture of the world's most popular drug / Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K. Bealer.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York ; London : Routledge, 2003.Description: 384 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780415927222 (hbk.) :
- 0415927226
- 613.84 WEI
- RC567
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 613.84 WEI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 206232 |
Originally published: 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Coffee: Arabian origins -- 2.Tea: Asian origins -- 3.Cacao: American origins -- 4.Monks and men-at-arms: Europe\'s first caffeine connections -- 5.The caffeine trade supplants the spice trade: tea and coffee comes to the west -- 6.The late adopters: Germany, Russia, and Sweden join in -- 7.Judgments of history: medical men debate caffeine -- 8.Postscript: why did caffeine come when it came? -- 9.Island of caffeine (1): Japan: the traditions of tea, the novely of coffee -- 10.Islands of caffeine (2): England: caffeine and empire -- 11.The endless simmer: America and the twentieth century do caffeine -- 12.Caffeine culture and Le Fin de Mille�naire -- 13.Caffeine in the laboratory -- 14.Caffeine and the plant kingdom: My vegetable love ... -- 15.Caffeine and the body: health effects, reproductive issues, and fitness -- 16.Thinking over caffeine: cognition, learning, and emotional well-being -- 17.caffeine dependence, intoxication, and toxicity.
This natural, cultural, and artistic history of our favourite mood enhancer tells us more, by looking at how caffeine was discovered, its early uses, and its unexpected role in medicine, religion, painting, poetry, learning and love.