An edible history of humanity. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tom Standage.
• Other Names: Standage, Tom
• Contents: Introduction: Ingredients of the past -- Part 1: Edible Foundations Of Civilization -- 1: Invention of farming -- 2: Roots of modernity -- Part 2: Food And Social Structure -- 3: Food, wealth, and power -- 4: Follow the food -- Part 3: Global Highways Of Food -- 5: Splinters of paradise -- 6: Seeds of empire -- Part 4: Food, Energy, And Industrialization -- 7: New world, new foods -- 8: Steam engine and the potato -- Part 5: Food As A Weapon -- 9: Fuel of war -- 10: Food fight -- Part 6: Food, Population, And Development -- 11: Feeding the world -- 12: Paradoxes of plenty -- Epilogue: Ingredients of the future.
• Publisher Details: New York : Walker & Co
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (239 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 394.1/209; History -- General; Food habits -- History; Food preferences -- History; Agriculture -- History; Food -- Symbolic aspects; Food -- Economic aspects; Agriculture; Food -- Economic aspects; Food habits; Food preferences; Food -- Symbolic aspects; History -- Social History; Cooking -- History; History; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780802719829; 0802719821
• Related ISBNs: 9780802715883; 0802715885
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-238).; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.