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Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato

Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato - Hardcover

by Rebecca Earle
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rebecca EarlePublish date:2020-06-25Pages:308
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108484060ISBN-10:1108484069UPC:9781108484060Book Category:Business & Economics, CookingBook Subcategory:Economic HistorySize:9.10 x 6.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCBXYAYK9H
Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Feeding the People traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes to everywhere. The potato's global history reveals the ways in which our ideas about eating are entangled with the emergence of capitalism and its celebration of the free market. It also reminds us that ordinary people make history in ways that continue to shape our lives. Feeding the People tells the story of how eating became part of statecraft, and provides a new account of the global spread of one of the world's most successful foods.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108484060ISBN-10:1108484069UPC:9781108484060Book Category:Business & Economics, CookingBook Subcategory:Economic HistorySize:9.10 x 6.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCBXYAYK9H
Earle, Rebecca: - Rebecca Earle teaches history at the University of Warwick. Her publications include The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700 (2012) and The Return of the Native: Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810-1930 (2007). She has also edited a cookery book.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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