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An edible history of humanity  Cover Image Book Book

An edible history of humanity / Tom Standage.

Standage, Tom. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780802715883 (hardcover) :
  • Physical Description: xiii, 269 p. : ill. ; cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Walker & Company, c2009.

Content descriptions

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.
Subject: Food habits > History.
Food preferences > History.
Agriculture > History.
Food > Symbolic aspects.
Food > Economic aspects.

Available copies

  • 4 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tumbler Ridge Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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Tumbler Ridge Public Library ANF 394.1209 STA (Text) TRL54618 Entertaining Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -


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