... independently, some earlier than others, with each drug becoming subject to distinct perceptions; medicinal, legal and political discourses; and distinct social anxieties and controversies. Yet, beginning in the seventeenth century, the budding of new urban coffeehouses throughout the Middle East meant...

.... Majority southern opinion was also evident in the South’s response to the My Lai Massacre and support for Lieutenant Calley, in the hostility toward GI coffeehouses, and in Senators Gore’s and Ralph Yarborough’s failure to win reelection. But the war’s ever-mounting agony was affecting the South. Senator...

...This chapter reviews the history of commodity exchanges trading coffee, sugar, and cocoa. Much of the earliest trading of coffee (and other commodities) took place in coffeehouses. It is impossible not to make a mental leap to modern-day coffee shops and Starbucks franchises, where many a fledgling...

...A Shá’er, with his accompanying, Violist, and part of his Audience. This and the following two chapters look at the reciters and storytellers who would frequent the coffeehouses of Cairo and other towns in the evenings, particularly during religious festivals. This chapter focuses on the poets...

...0 28 07 2005 This final part of the book examines physical places and mental spaces of the city: on the one hand the central places of commerce, literature, and bourgeois sociability such as theatres, coffeehouses, cabarets, early cinemas, and public squares, and on the other the marginal...

... youth. Symbolic of this change was the success of Campus Crusade for Christ’s June 1972 EXPLO ’72 rally in Dallas, which was dominated by the language, symbols, and music of the Jesus movement. The chapter explores the manner in which the coffeehouse replaced the communal house as the center...

... as a repatriated prisoner of war, he told the story of his American travails in taverns and coffeehouses while dressed as an Indian. This scholarly edition of Williamson’s autobiography separates the fact from fiction in his story and situates it within the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Empire....

...This chapter focuses on the impact that the development of a specifically Jewish public sphere had on the form, content, and style of Jewish culture and politics in Warsaw. By closely examining the critical role played by coffeehouses, theaters, and newspapers, this chapter argues that this new...

...As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned and operated by civilian activists, GI coffeehouses served as off-base refuges for the growing number of active-duty soldiers resisting the war...

... innovation migrant morality Berlin coffeehouses competition confectioners fashion able schweizeri Venice Copenhagen Frankfurt promenade entrance fee health pleasure garden spa upper class es amusement parks aristocracy bourgeoisie circus games zoo skating tivoli park access male...

...Since their introduction in the mid-sixteenth century, coffeehouses have arguably been the most important sites of adult-male sociability in Istanbul, the capital city of the Ottoman Empire. This chapter analyses their long term history in a comparative and transnational perspective. Throughout...

...0 27 03 2003 This content is only available as a PDF. restaurants warrant Immigration coffeehouses shops On the night of February 22, 1926 and then again several nights later, agents from the Commissioner General of Immigration’s office, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Chicago Police...

...This chapter examines cooperatives and coffeehouses during the 1960s as a case study of the flexible relationship between official institutions and social relations, first viewing coffeehouses as forums of public life, but stating that they were once the instruments of the regional social oligarchy...

... Simone Visconti Filippo Maria Cairo travellers Fatimids fortifications walls coffeehouses camels minarets domes canal While Syria had suffered from the onslaughts of the Mongols and the wars of the Crusades, Cairo had escaped almost unmolested. Peace had enabled her to become the fabled...

.... Taking as case studies Ghazzī’s robust theory of belonging and his versified fatwa on attending coffeehouses—the chapter shows how The Virtue of Awakening is a multivalent composition that explores imitation as a complex process of human becoming and belonging, with all its ambiguities...

... in the coffeehouses of London’s Exchange Alley. It discusses the first printed materials that helped investors to navigate this world. John Freke and John Castaing printed lists of stock prices. There were numerous manuals which explained how to undertake interest rate calculations or keep accounts. People also...

...This chapter investigates eighteenth-century Jewish and Tuscan governmental attempts to regulate social behavior by focusing on Jewish coffeehouses and the laws on gambling within those premises. Through a consideration of Jewish policies relative to coffee shops, it continues exploring the ways...

... briefly surveys its history among the Arabs then turns to preparation and coffeehouses. Finally it looks at hashish (hemp) and opium, which were less widely used—where and how they were prepared, sold, and consumed. The interdiction of wine, and other fermented and intoxicating liquors, which...

... Coffee Man, there had been remarkable explosion in the number of coffeehouses across the United States. Instead of commenting on the “coffee culture” phenomenon as typified by Starbucks, however, the cartoons focused on what Wheeler saw as the widespread misrepresentation of the lawsuit filed...

... not incidentally was WAR spelled backwards. The chapter discusses the transformation of veteran Ron Kovic into a political activist, and the emergence of antiwar coffeehouses around military bases. The chapter culminates with a description of the Winter Soldier hearings and the revelation of massive war crimes...