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Description edit
The bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses brilliantly charts how foods have transformed human culture through the ages. Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
People edit
- Haber: A Not-So-Boring "History Book"
- Norman Borlaug: Add a description of this character.
- Malthus: Population scientist
- Da Gama: Explorer
- Alexander
- Marco Polo
- Nernst
- Napoleon
- Mao
- Appert
- Stalin
- Bosch
- Charles
- Nori
- Toscanelli
Setting & Locations edit
- Indian Ocean
- China
- Britain
- Africa
- Eurasia
- United States
- Spain
- Germany
- Soviet Union
- Portugal
- Ireland
- Mexico
- West Berlin
- France
- Atlantic
- Mesopotamia
- Egypt
- South America
- Japan
- Near East
- Arabia
- Ukraine
- Alexandria
- Paris
- Italy
- Svalbard
- Moscow
- Rome
- Turkey
- West Indies
- Moluccas
- Americas
- Greece
- Sumatra
- Atlanta
- North America
- Red Sea
- Georgia
- London
- Lisbon
- Cuba
- New World
First Sentence edit
There are many ways to look at the past: as a list of important dates, a conveyor belt of kings and queens, a series of rising and falling empires, or a narrative of political, philosophical, or technological progress.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction: Ingredients of the Past
I. The Edible Foundations of Civilization
1. The Invention of Farming
2. The Roots of Modernity
II. Food and Social Structure
3. Food, Wealth, and Power
4. Follow the Food
III. Global Highways of Food
5. Splinters of Paradise
6. Seeds of Empire
IV. Food, Energy, and Industrialization
7. New World, New Foods
8. The Steam Engine and the Potato
V. Food as a Weapon
9. The Fuel of War
10. Food Fight
VI. Food, Population, and Development
11. Feeding the World
12. Paradoxes of Plenty
Epilogue: Ingredients of the Future
Acknowledgments
Notes
Sources
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Tom Standage (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Country: England
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 1843546345
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Country: England
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 1843546345
Page Count: 368
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 394.1209
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