An Edible History Of Humanity by Tom Standage
How Food Has Shaped the Course of History
A lively account of how food — from the rise of agriculture and staple crops to spices, sugar, tea, coffee and the New World’s potatoes and maize — has driven human history by shaping population growth, trade networks, technology, empire-building, social institutions and even disease and migration; the book traces how caloric needs, agricultural innovation, markets and tastes fueled exploration, slavery, industrialization and globalization, arguing that culinary preferences and the economics of nourishment have been central engines of political and cultural change.
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- 2009
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- British
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- 320
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- English
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