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Robert I. Rotberg (Ed.) - Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society - 9780521315050 - KEX0285015
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Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society

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Description for Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society Paperback. The essays in this 1985 volume direct attention to important questions on the relationship between food and history. Editor(s): Rotberg, Robert I.; Rabb, Theodore K. Num Pages: 346 pages, d.tabs. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510. 8vo.
The essays in this 1985 volume direct attention to important questions on the relationship between food and history. Throughout human history, man has had to adapt and sustain himself by varying or expanding the basic kinds or forms of his nutritional staples, by migration, or by employing remarkable ingenuities to alter his environment. But we have as yet only a rudimentary understanding of nutrition and malnutrition in the past. The authors of these essays show how much of the past can be better understood if the distinctions which are obvious to clinicians and nutritionists are assimilated by historians. Likewise, this ... Read more

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Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Number of Pages
346
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521315050
SKU
KEX0285015
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