書名 : An edible history of humanity /
紀錄類型 : 書目-語言資料,印刷品: 單行本
正題名[資料類型標示]/作者 : An edible history of humanity /Tom Standage.
作者 : Standage, Tom.
版本項 : Paperback edition.
出版者 : New York :Walker & Co.,2010.
面頁冊數 : xiii, 269 p. :ill., maps ;21 cm.
內容註 : 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.
標題 : Food habits
ISBN : 9780802719911 (pbk.) :
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245 13$aAn edible history of humanity /$cTom Standage.
250 $aPaperback edition.
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300 $axiii, 269 p. :$bill., maps ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
520 $aA lighthearted chronicle of how foods have transformed human culture throughout the ages traces the barley- and wheat-driven early civilizations of the near East through the corn and potato industries in America.
650 0$aFood habits$xHistory.
650 0$aFood preferences.
650 0$aAgriculture$xHistory.
650 0$aFood$xSymbolic aspects.
650 0$aFood.