A History Of Europe In 12 Cafes

Author : Monica Porter
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399031562
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A History of Europe in 12 Cafés written by Monica Porter and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the seventeenth century, the café, or coffee house, in Europe has been the key gathering place of innovators and mavericks – the writers, artists, philosophers and political figures who formed influential affiliations and gave birth to revolutionary movements that still affect our lives today. It was the type of establishment ideally suited for this role. Unlike the tavern, pub or bar, where one’s senses grow ever duller from alcohol, one can sit for hours in a café with like-minded companions, consuming the coffee that sharpens wits and conversations. No wonder so many new ideas were generated in the legendary cafés of Paris and Vienna, Rome and Venice, Prague, Budapest and other major European cities. In her latest book, Monica Porter leads the reader on an entertaining waltz through six centuries, nine European countries (plus America) and a wealth of historic episodes featuring some of the most intriguing and noteworthy people who ever lived. As she reveals, playing its vital part in all their stories – at times in the background, at times front and centre – is that enticing venue: the café. The twelve venerable establishments of the book’s title – the oldest dating from 1686, the newest from 1911 – are all still in existence. And so, after learning about their fascinating historical associations, readers can experience these places for themselves, which makes the volume an ideal companion for history buffs, travellers and café-lovers alike.

Author : Monica Porter
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 9781399031523
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A History of Europe in 12 Cafes written by Monica Porter and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the twelve cafes that shaped European history and culture. Since the seventeenth century, the café, or coffee house, in Europe has been the key gathering place of innovators and mavericks - the writers, artists, philosophers and political figures who formed influential affiliations and gave birth to revolutionary movements that still affect our lives today. It was the type of establishment ideally suited for this role. Unlike the tavern, pub or bar, where one's senses grow ever duller from alcohol, one can sit for hours in a café with like-minded companions, consuming the coffee that sharpens wits and conversations. No wonder so many new ideas were generated in the legendary cafés of Paris and Vienna, Rome and Venice, Prague, Budapest and other major European cities. In her latest book, Monica Porter leads the reader on an entertaining waltz through six centuries, nine European countries (plus America) and a wealth of historic episodes featuring some of the most intriguing and noteworthy people who ever lived. As she reveals, playing its vital part in all their stories - at times in the background, at times front and centre - is that enticing venue: the café. The twelve venerable establishments of the book's title - the oldest dating from 1686, the newest from 1911 - are all still in existence. And so, after learning about their fascinating historical associations, readers can experience these places for themselves, which makes the volume an ideal companion for history buffs, travelers and café-lovers alike.

Author : Noel Riley Fitch
Publisher : New Holland Publishers Uk Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781845371142
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Grand Literary Cafés of Europe written by Noel Riley Fitch and published by New Holland Publishers Uk Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 16th century, coffee has been the beverage of choice to inspire thought, argument and dream as well as the impetus for the origin of the coffeehouse. The café - whether called caffe, Kaffeehaus, Kawiarnia or coffeehouse - has been central to urban and artistic life. In Europe and elsewhere, it is a place to start and end the day, to read, compose, gossip, debate or mull over the intricacies of a chess move. This beautifuly illustrated book takes the reader on a tour of the great literary cafés of Europe, encompassing cities as diverse as London, Lisbon, Budapest, Barcelona, Rome and Prague. Focusing on the famous writers and artists who frequented these historic places, author Noël Riley-Fitch celebrates the cafés' architecture, history and tradition, providing an insight to their enduring charm and popularity, shown through almost 150 photographs.

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
ISBN 13 : 1948436663
Total Pages : 1569 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in China, in Chinese Cookbooks and Restaurants, and in Chinese Work with Soyfoods Outside China (Including Taiwan, Manchuria, Hong Kong & Tibet) (1949-2022) written by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 1569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 231 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The London Catalogue of Books, with Their Sizes, Prices, and Publishers. Containing the Books Published in London, and Those Altered in Size, Or Price, Since the Year 1800 to October 1822 written by and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Shurtleff
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
ISBN 13 : 1928914667
Total Pages : 759 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Korea, and in Korean Cookbooks, Restaurants, and Korean Work with Soyfoods outside Korea written by William Shurtleff and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on soy in Korea. With extensive index and 80 photographs and illustration. Free of charge in digital format on Google Books

Author : Christoph Grafe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134228171
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Cafes and Bars written by Christoph Grafe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt particularly strongly over the past thirty years, in a time when these social spaces have contributed significantly to the rediscovery and reinvention of cities across Europe and North America. This volume presents and examines this significant urban architectural production, and discusses it against a background of the design of cafes and bars across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Major themes and developments are discussed and illustrated with case studies, from the functionalist pre-World War Two architects in Central Europe representing modern society through the design of public spaces, right up to the design of sophisticated bars and cafes as part of the recent urban renaissance of Barcelona and Paris in 1980s and London in the '90s.

Author : Ryan James
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470473347
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Frommer's? Eastern Europe written by Ryan James and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel to Eastern Europe is booming-international arrivals to Eastern Europe have increased by an average of 3.9 percent each year since 2004 Destinations covered in this guide are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Moscow & St. Petersburg, Slovakia, Slovenia,and Kaliningrad According to a May 2006 Euromonitor article, Poland has the most visitors (15 million in 2005), with Hungary close behind The fastest growing destination in Europe is Bulgaria; inbound tourists increased 17 percent between 2004 and 2005 Low cost airlines continue to add more routes to and within Eastern Europe

Author : Charlotte Ashby
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857457659
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture written by Charlotte Ashby and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural, and political world of fin-de-siècle Vienna. Just as the café served as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations between different disciplines focusing on Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century. Contributions are drawn from the fields of social and cultural history, literary studies, Jewish studies and art, and architectural and design history. A fresh perspective is also provided by a selection of comparative articles exploring coffeehouse culture elsewhere in Eastern Europe.

Author : Marcel Cornis-Pope
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027234551
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe written by Marcel Cornis-Pope and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National literary histories based on internally homogeneous native traditions have significantly contributed to the construction of national identities, especially in multicultural East-Central Europe, the region between the German and Russian hegemonic cultural powers stretching from the Baltic states to the Balkans. History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, which covers the last two hundred years, reconceptualizes these literary traditions by de-emphasizing the national myths and by highlighting analogies and points of contact, as well as hybrid and marginal phenomena that tra