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An edible history of humanity / Tom Standage.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Bloomsbury, 2010.Edition: Pbk. edDescription: xiii, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780802719911
  • 0802719910
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GT2850 .S73 2010
Contents:
The edible foundations of civilization -- The invention of farming -- The roots of modernity -- Food and social structure -- Food, wealth and power -- Follow the food -- Global highways of food -- Splinters of paradise -- Seeds of empire -- Food, energy and industrialisation -- New world, new foods -- The steam engine and the potato -- Food as a weapon -- The fuel of war -- Food fight -- Food, population, and development -- Feeding the world -- Paradoxes of plenty.
Summary: A lighthearted chronicle of how foods have transformed human culture throughout the ages traces the barley- and wheat-driven early civilizations of the near East through the corn and potato industries in America.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book Karen H. Huntsman Library Main Book Collection - Second Level 394.1209 St241e Available 38060007472533
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Originally published by Walker & Co., 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257) and index.

The edible foundations of civilization -- The invention of farming -- The roots of modernity -- Food and social structure -- Food, wealth and power -- Follow the food -- Global highways of food -- Splinters of paradise -- Seeds of empire -- Food, energy and industrialisation -- New world, new foods -- The steam engine and the potato -- Food as a weapon -- The fuel of war -- Food fight -- Food, population, and development -- Feeding the world -- Paradoxes of plenty.

A lighthearted chronicle of how foods have transformed human culture throughout the ages traces the barley- and wheat-driven early civilizations of the near East through the corn and potato industries in America.

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