A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization
by Kiple, Kenneth F
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Synopsis
This book, based largely on the Cambridge World History of Food, provides a look at the globalization of food from the days of the hunter-gatherers to present-day genetically modified plants and animals. The establishment of agriculture and the domestication of animals in Eurasia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas are all treated in some detail along with the subsequent diffusion of farming cultures through the activities of monks, missionaries, migrants, imperialists, explorers, traders, and raiders. Much attention is given to the 'Columbian Exchange' of plants and animals that brought revolutionary demographic change to every corner of the planet and led ultimately to the European occupation of Australia and New Zealand as well as the rest of Oceania. Final chapters deal with the impact of industrialization on food production, processing, and distribution, and modern-day food-related problems ranging from famine to obesity to genetically modified food to fast food.
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- Brit Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1895796
- Title
- A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization
- Author
- Kiple, Kenneth F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used; Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 052179353X
- ISBN 13
- 9780521793537
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- This edition first published
- April 30, 2007
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