An edible history of humanity
(2009)
By:
Standage, Tom
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
394.12/STANDAGE,T
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Walker & Co., 2009
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780802715883 (hardcover), 0802715885 (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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