Standage, Tom. <br/><br/>
An edible history of humanity / 
Tom Standage. 
 - Pbk. ed. 
 - New York :  Walker & Co.,  2010, c2009. 
 - xiii, 269 p. :  ill., maps ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780802719911 (pbk.) 0802719910 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>9780802719911 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Food habits--History.<br/>Food preferences--History.<br/>Agriculture--History.<br/>Food--Symbolic aspects.<br/>Food--Economic aspects.