An edible history of humanity / Tom Standage.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Bloomsbury, 2010.Edition: Pbk. edDescription: xiii, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780802719911
- 0802719910
- GT2850 .S73 2010
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Karen H. Huntsman Library Main Book Collection - Second Level | 394.1209 St241e | Available | 38060007472533 |
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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