An edible history of humanity
Book |
1st U.S. ed. |
Walker & Company,
New York :
c2009.
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- ISBN: 9780802715883 (hc) :
- Physical Description: xiii, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.print
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Walker & Company, c2009.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: 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.