ISBN:
9780802719911
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 269 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Edition:
Paperback ed.
DDC:
394.1209
Keywords:
Food habits History
;
Food preferences History
;
Agriculture History
;
Food Symbolic aspects
;
Food Economic aspects
;
Ernährungsgewohnheit
;
Geschichte
;
Speise
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte
;
Lebensmittel
;
Pflanzenbau
;
Lebensmittelverarbeitung
Abstract:
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
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 249 - 257
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