An Edible History of Humanity [electronic resource]
Standage, Tom2012
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Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict and economic expansion. In An Edible History of Humanity Tom Standage serves up a hugely satisfying account of ways in which food has, indirectly, helped to shape and transform societies around the world. It is a dazzling account of gastronomic revolutions from pre-history to the present.
Main title:
An Edible History of Humanity [electronic resource] / Tom Standage
Author:
Standage, Tom, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Atlantic Books, 2012
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Tom Standage is business editor at The Economist and the author of The Turk, The Neptune File, The Victorian Internet, and A History of the World in Six Glasses (Atlantic, 2006). He lives in Greenwich, London.
ISBN:
9781782391654
Language:
English
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BRN:
2899980
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