Book
An edible history of humanity
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802715883 (hardcover) :
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Physical Description:
print
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. |
Search for related items by subject
| 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.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Tumbler Ridge Public Library | ANF 394.1209 STA (Text) | TRL54618 | Entertaining Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
