Format:
Book
Author:
Standage, Tom.
Title:
An edible history of humanity / Tom Standage.
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Walker & Co., 2009.
Description:
xiii, 269 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Food habits -- History.
Food preferences -- History.
Agriculture -- History.
Food -- Symbolic aspects.
Food -- Economic aspects.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.
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.
LCCN:
2009005610
ISBN:
9780802715883 (hardcover)
0802715885 (hardcover)
Other Number:
310224837
System Availability:
2
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
1294023
Call Number:
394.1/209
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
2