Author: Kiple, Kenneth F.
Title: A Movable Feast : Ten Millennia of Food Globalization
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. orig.boards, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm. xvi,368 pp, In a torn dustwrapper.. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG. ¶ 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" - Publisher's description. [Contents: Introduction : from foraging to farming --Last hunters, first farmers -- Building the barnyard --Promiscuous plants of the northern fertile crescent --Peripatetic plants of eastern Asia -- Fecund fringes of the northern fertile crescent --Consequences of the neolithic --Enterprise and empires --Faith and foodstuffs --Empires in the rubble of Rome --Medieval progress and poverty --Spain’s new world the northern Hemisphere --New world, new foods --New foods in the southern new world --The Columbian exchange and the old worlds ..,.]

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