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An edible history of humanity
An edible history of humanity
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Standage, Tom
Publisher
Walker & Co
Publication Date
2009
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1st U.S. ed.
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English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
Introduction: Ingredients of the past
Part 1: Edible Foundations Of Civilization
1: Invention of farming
2: Roots of modernity
Part 2: Food And Social Structure
3: Food, wealth, and power
4: Follow the food
Part 3: Global Highways Of Food
5: Splinters of paradise
6: Seeds of empire
Part 4: Food, Energy, And Industrialization
7: New world, new foods
8: Steam engine and the potato
Part 5: Food As A Weapon
9: Fuel of war
10: Food fight
Part 6: Food, Population, And Development
11: Feeding the world
12: Paradoxes of plenty
Epilogue: Ingredients of the future
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Agriculture
Agriculture -- History
Economic aspects
Food
Food -- Economic aspects
Food -- Symbolic aspects
Food habits
Food habits -- History
Food preferences
Food preferences -- History
History
Symbolic aspects
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9780802715883
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