An edible history of humanity [electronic resource] / Tom Standage.
The bestselling author of A history of the world in 6 glasses brilliantly charts how foods have transformed human culture through the ages.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400193080 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1400193087 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: [Old Saybrook, Con.] : Tantor Media, 2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 10:02:48. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Ingredients of the past -- Part 1: Edible Foundations Of Civilization -- 1: Invention of farming -- 2: Roots of modernity -- Part 2: Food And Social Structure -- 3: Food, wealth, and power -- 4: Follow the food -- Part 3: Global Highways Of Food -- 5: Splinters of paradise -- 6: Seeds of empire -- Part 4: Food, Energy, And Industrialization -- 7: New world, new foods -- 8: Steam engine and the potato -- Part 5: Food As A Weapon -- 9: Fuel of war -- 10: Food fight -- Part 6: Food, Population, And Development -- 11: Feeding the world -- 12: Paradoxes of plenty -- Epilogue: Ingredients of the future -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Sources -- Index. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by George K. Wilson. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 144411 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Food habits > History. Food preferences > History. Agriculture > History. Food > Symbolic aspects. Food > Economic aspects. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. |