Title:
An edible history of humanity / Tom Standage.
Author:
Standage, Tom.
Publication Information:
New York : Walker & Co., 2010, c2009.
Call Number:
GT2850 .S73 2010
Edition:
Pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9780802719911
Physical Description:
xiii, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
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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