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How Food Made History Hardback - 2011 - 1st Edition
by B. W. Higman
- New
- Hardcover
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- Title How Food Made History
- Author B. W. Higman
- Binding Hardback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons
- Date 2011-10-17
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9781405189484
- ISBN 9781405189484 / 1405189487
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Food habits - History, HISTORY / Social History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011022726
- Dewey Decimal Code 394.120
From the rear cover
How Food Made History offers a wide-ranging overview of 5,000 years of global history, a period dominated by agriculture and urbanization. It traces the changing patterns of food production and consumption that have molded economic and social life and contributed fundamentally to the development of government and complex societies. The author also charts the changing technologies that have increased crop yields, enabled the industrial processing and preservation of food, and made possible trade and transportation. Higman places recent trends, such as the co-existence of abundance and famine, obesity and dieting, into historical context and provides a fresh understanding of the importance of food in world history for modern readers.