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The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900
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by Rudi Matthee
Sales Rank: 750466
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List Price: $42.00
$34.20
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 366 pages
Published by: Princeton University Press July 5, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0691118558
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0691118550
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
This is an extremely successful foray into the social history of Iran in the early modern period. This is a very rich and readable book. It is especially good at showing the wider significance of the pursuit of pleasure.
(Michael Pearson Itinerario )
As a work of social and economic history, this book sets a high standard. . . . [M]ost readers will be more than satisfied by this lucid, precise, and information-packed volume.
(Richard W. Bulliet American Historical Review )
Product Review
This excellent, well-written book is likely to become a classic work on the subject of drugs and stimulants both in Iran and the wider Islamic world. It will have a readership far beyond those individuals interested principally in Iranian or Middle Eastern studies. The author not only discusses the use of the commodities but he also analyzes the social practice of consumption, the persistent tension between social practice and religious norms exemplified by the use of and attitude toward wine, drugs, and stimulants, and the ways in which Iranian consumption was related to the shifting patterns of international trade.
(Stephen F. Dale, Ohio State University, author of "The Garden of the Eight Paradises: Babur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan, and India (1483-1530)" )
Reader Reviews
I'm not a fast reader, but still has Rudi Matthee heard of the key, ENTER. Why punish your reader with tightly spaced type, lines, and extremely rare appearances of paragraphs? I mention this because, this book is full of interesting facts about the origins of everything that Iranians deeply value, including tea, coffee, Ghalyoon, tobacco, and opium. However, your eyes can't keep up with the chapters, its not reader friendly. Perhaps, his attention to the origin of words, such as nargela, and much much more, will entice those who love language, but even if linguistics does not interest you, the stories will guarantee your attention. One last note, this book requires a chart of some kind, Iranian history is full of kings, sons, stories of drunkenness, assassinations, so much that its quit hard to keep track of who killed who, and who died of what overdose. So, your full attention is required!
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