The Routledge history of food / edited by Carol Helstosky
- Published
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
- Physical Description
- xxxi, 371 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Helstosky, Carol
- Series
- Contents
- Food and the historian / Carol Helstosky -- The magic of Japanese rice cakes / Eric C. Rath -- Food production, consumption, and identity politics in Tahuantinsuyu and colonial Perú / Alison Krogel -- Stimulants and intoxicants in Europe, 1500-1700 / Ken Albala -- Science, food and health in Chosǒn Korea / Michael J. Pettid -- Food shortage in colonial Mexico : maize, food policies and the construction of a modern political culture, 1785-1807 / Sarah Bak-Geller Corona -- "If the King had really been a father to us" : failed food diplomacy in eighteenth-century Sierra Leone / Rachel B. Herrmann -- Stolen bodies, edible memories : the influence and function of West African foodways in the early British Atlantic / Kelley Fanto Deetz -- Spreading the word : using cookbooks and colonial memoirs to examine the foodways of British colonials in Asia, 1850-1900 / Cecilia Leong-Salobir -- The globalization of alcohol and temperance from the gin craze to prohibition / Jeffrey M. Pilcher -- "Peace on earth among the orders of creation" : vegetarian ethics in the United States before World War I / Bernard Unti -- Food, medicine and institutional life in the British Isles, c.1790-1900 / Ian Miller -- Industrializing diet, industrializing ourselves : technology, food and the body, since 1750 / Chris Otter -- The evolution of a fast food phenomenon : the case of American pizza / Bonnie M. Miller -- Cooking class : the rise of the "foodie" and the role of mass media / Kathleen Collins -- Tourism, cuisine, and the consumption of culture in the Caribbean / Carla Guerron Montero -- Food and migration in the twentieth century / Laresh Jayasanker -- Quick rice : international development and the Green Revolution in Sierra Leone, 1960-1976 / Zachary D. Poppel.
- Summary
- "Examines the history of economic, technological, and cultural interactions between cultures and the corresponding developments in food history, focusing on the period from 1500 to the present"--
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780415628471 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0415628474 (hardback ; alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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