Feeding the People
The Politics of the Potato
(Sprache: Englisch)
Almost no one knew what a potato was in 1500. Today they are the world's fourth most important food. How did this happen?
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Almost no one knew what a potato was in 1500. Today they are the world's fourth most important food. How did this happen?
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Feeding the People “
List of figures; List of recipes; List of abbreviations; Introduction. Pouring ourselves a large gin; 1. Immigrant potatoes; 2. Enlightened potatoes; 3. Free-market potatoes; 4. Global potatoes; 5. Capitalist potatoes; 6. Security potatoes; Conclusions. Parmentier, peasants and personal responsibility; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Autoren-Porträt von Rebecca Earle
Earle, RebeccaRebecca 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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rebecca Earle
- 2020, 308 Seiten, 33 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 15,4 x 23,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN-10: 1108484069
- ISBN-13: 9781108484060
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.06.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
'In following the global travels of the peripatetic potato, Earle brilliantly illuminates both the origins of dietary advice that promised the key to happiness and the everyday ingenuity of farmers and cooks who really do feed the people.' Jeffrey M. Pilcher, author of Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food
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