Ambivalent Pleasures: Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe by Taylor, Scott K.
Ambivalent Pleasures: Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe by Taylor, Scott K.

Ambivalent Pleasures: Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe

Ambivalent Pleasures explores how Europeans wrestled with the novel experience of consuming substances that could alter moods...
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Ambivalent Pleasures: Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe by Taylor, Scott K.

Ambivalent Pleasures: Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe

$188.55
Ambivalent Pleasures: Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe by Taylor, Scott K.

Ambivalent Pleasures: Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe

$188.55
Author: Scott K. Taylor
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Ambivalent Pleasures explores how Europeans wrestled with the novel experience of consuming substances that could alter moods and become addictive. During the early modern period, psychotropic drugs like sugar, chocolate, tobacco, tea, coffee, distilled spirits like gin and rum, and opium either arrived in western Europe for the first time or were newly available as everyday commodities.

Drawing from primary sources in English, Dutch, French, Italian, and Spanish, Scott K. Taylor shows that these substances embodied Europeans' anxieties about race and empire, religious strife, shifting notions of class and gender roles, and the moral implications of urbanization and global trade.

Through the writings of physicians, theologians, political pamphleteers, satirists, and others, Ambivalent Pleasures tracks the emerging understanding of addiction; fears about the racial, class, and gendered implications of using these soft drugs (including that consuming them would make users more foreign); and the new forms of sociability that coalesced around their use.

Even as Europeans' moral concerns about the consumption of these drugs fluctuated, the physical and sensory experiences of using them remained a critical concern, anticipating present-day rhetoric and policy about addiction to drugs and alcohol.



Author: Scott K. Taylor
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 08/15/2024
Pages: 318
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781501775468

About the Author

Scott K. Taylor is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Honor and Violence in Golden Age Spain.


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