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An edible history of humanity / Tom Standage.

By: Publication details: New York : Walker & Co., 2009.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: xiii, 269 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0802715885 (hardcover)
  • 9780802715883 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 394.1/209 22
LOC classification:
  • GT2850 .S73 2009
  • GT2850 .S73 2009
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

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