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Collingham, E. M. (Elizabeth M.)
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Food industry and trade -- Great Britain -- History.
Food supply -- Great Britain -- History.
Food habits -- Great Britain -- History.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Commerce.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social life and customs.
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The taste of empire ...
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338.1941 C711t
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Collingham, E. M. (Elizabeth M.)
Food industry and trade -- Great Britain -- History.
Food supply -- Great Britain -- History.
Food habits -- Great Britain -- History.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Commerce.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social life and customs.
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The taste of empire : how Britain's quest for food shaped the modern world / Lizzie Collingham
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Collingham, E. M. (Elizabeth M.)
Basic Books, 2017.
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338
.1941
C711t
Subjects
Food industry and trade -- Great Britain -- History.
Food supply -- Great Britain -- History.
Food habits -- Great Britain -- History.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Commerce.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9780465056668 (hc.)
Description:
xvii, 367 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-353) and index
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"Historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans became the best-fed people in the world. Only by examining the history of Great Britain's global food system, from sixteenth-century Newfoundland fisheries to our present-day eating habits, can we fully understand our capitalist economy and its role in making our modern diets. Lizzie Collingham is an associate fellow at the University of Warwick. She is the author of The Taste of War and Curry"--Provided by publisher.
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