Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato

Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity...
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Author: Rebecca Earle
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato by Earle, Rebecca

Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato

$64.57

Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato

$64.57
Author: Rebecca Earle
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Feeding the People traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes to everywhere. The potato's global history reveals the ways in which our ideas about eating are entangled with the emergence of capitalism and its celebration of the free market. It also reminds us that ordinary people make history in ways that continue to shape our lives. Feeding the People tells the story of how eating became part of statecraft, and provides a new account of the global spread of one of the world's most successful foods.

Author: Rebecca Earle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/25/2020
Pages: 308
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781108484060

About the Author
Earle, Rebecca: - Rebecca Earle teaches history at the University of Warwick. Her publications include The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700 (2012) and The Return of the Native: Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810-1930 (2007). She has also edited a cookery book.

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