An edible history of humanity
| Main Author: | Standage, Tom. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Walker & Co.,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of 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.