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How Food Made History

Autor BW Higman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 oct 2011
Covering 5,000 years of global history, How Food Made History traces the changing patterns of food production and consumption that have molded economic and social life and contributed fundamentally to the development of government and complex societies. * Charts the changing technologies that have increased crop yields, enabled the industrial processing and preservation of food, and made transportation possible over great distances * Considers social attitudes towards food, religious prohibitions, health and nutrition, and the politics of distribution * Offers a fresh understanding of world history through the discussion of food
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405189484
ISBN-10: 1405189487
Pagini: 276
Dimensiuni: 153 x 232 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

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Scholars and students of the History of Food and Culture in departments of History and related fields such as Anthropology and sociology

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Notă biografică

B. W. Higman is Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University and Emeritus Professor of the University of the West Indies. He has published several books on the history of slavery and the social and economic history of the Caribbean. He has taught courses on world food history, and is the author of Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture (2008).

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How Food Made History offers a wide-ranging overview of 5,000 years of global history, a period dominated by agriculture and urbanization. It traces the changing patterns of food production and consumption that have molded economic and social life and contributed fundamentally to the development of government and complex societies.