Kawfee Tawk

[Dave Monroe]

Will, if I remember to do so in the frenzy, be posting
on these topics (caffeine, the rise of the
bourgeoisie, the Enlightenment, et al.) from any and
all of the following in the coming week ...

Bennett, Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K. Bealer.
   The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture
   of the World's Most Popular Drug.  New York:
   Routledge, 2000.

Braun, Stephen.  Buzz: The Science and Lore of
   Alcohol and Caffeine.  NY: Oxford UP, 1996.   

Hattox, Ralph S.  Coffee and Coffeehouses:
   The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval
   Near East.  Seattle: U of Washington P, 1990.

Pendergrast, Mark.  Uncommon Grounds:
   The History of Coffee and how It Transformed
   Our World.  New York: Basic Books, 1999.

Picard, Liza.  Dr. Johnson's London:
   Coffee-House and Climbing Boys, Medicine,
   Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs,
   Freakshows and Female Education.  New York:
   St. Martin's, 2001.

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang.  Tastes of Paradise:
   A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and
   Intoxicants.  New York: Vintage, 1993.

Along with, more generally ...

Habermas, Jurgen. The Structural Transformation
   of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category
   of Bourgeois Society.  Trans. Thomas Burger.
   Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991.

Shapin, Steven.  A Social History of Truth:
   Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century
   England.  Chiacgo: U of Chicago P, 1994.

... if anybody's interested in some background
reading.  And thanks, John, for mentioning that recent
Schivelbusch title (In a Cold Crater), which I wasn't
aware of.  His The Railway Journey's a classic, with
Disenchanted Night not far behind ...

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