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An edible history of humanity / Tom Standage.

By: Standage, Tom.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Walker & Co., 2010, c2009Edition: Pbk. ed.Description: xiii, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780802719911 (pbk.); 0802719910 (pbk.).Subject(s): Food habits -- History | Food preferences -- History | Agriculture -- History | Food -- Symbolic aspects | Food -- Economic aspects
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.
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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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