The Routledge History of Food

ISBN-13: 9780367867201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 372 str.

Carol Helstosky

Opis

The history of food is one of the fastest growing areas of historical investigation, incorporating methods and theories from cultural, social, and women’s history while forging a unique perspective on the past. The Routledge History of Food takes a global approach to this topic, focusing on the period from 1500 to the present day.

Spis treści

Introduction.  1500-1700  1. The Magic of Japanese Rice Cakes  2. Food Production, Consumption and Identity Politics in Tahuantinsuyu and Colonial Perú  3. Stimulants and Intoxicants in Europe, 1500-1700  4. Science, Food and Health in Chosŏn Korea  1700-1900  5. Food Shortage in New Spain: Maize, Food Policies and the Construction of a Patriotic Identity, 1785-1807  6. "If the King had really been a father to us": Failed Food Diplomacy in Eighteenth-Century Sierra Leone  7. Stolen Bodies, Edible Memories: The Influence and Function of West African Foodways in the Early British Atlantic  8. Spreading the Word: Using Cookbooks and Colonial Memoirs to Examine the Foodways of British Colonials in Asia, 1850-1900  9. The Globalization of Alcohol and Temperance from the Gin Craze to Prohibition  10. "Peace on earth among the orders of creation": Vegetarian Ethics in the United States Before World War I  11. Food, Medicine and Institutional Life in the British Isles, c.1790-1900  12. Industrializing Diet, Industrializing Ourselves: Technology, Energy, and Food, 1750-2000  1990-present  13. The Evolution of a Fast Food Phenomenon: The Case of American Pizza  14. Cooking Class: The Rise of the "Foodie" and the Role of Mass Media  15. Tourism, Cuisine, and the Consumption of Culture in the Caribbean  16. Food and Migration in the Twentieth Century  17. Quick Rice: International Development and the Green Revolution in Sierra Leone, 1960-1976

O autorze

Carol Helstosky is Associate Professor of History at Denver University. Her publications include Food Culture in the Mediterranean (2009), Pizza: A Global History (2008) and Garlic and Oil: Food and Politics in Modern Italy (2004).