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Chicle: The Chewing Gum of the Americas, From the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley
Jennifer P. Mathews
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Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 178 x 10. Weight in Grams: 249.
Although Juicy Fruit(R) gum was introduced to North Americans in 1893, Native Americans in Mesoamerica were chewing gum thousands of years earlier. And although in the last decade biographies have been devoted to salt, spices, chocolate, coffee, and other staples of modern life, until now there has never been a full history of chewing gum.Chicle is a history in four acts, all of them focused on the sticky white substance that seeps from the sapodilla tree when its bark is cut. First, Jennifer Mathews recounts the story of chicle and its earliest-known adherents, the Maya and Aztecs. Second, with ... Read more
Although Juicy Fruit(R) gum was introduced to North Americans in 1893, Native Americans in Mesoamerica were chewing gum thousands of years earlier. And although in the last decade biographies have been devoted to salt, spices, chocolate, coffee, and other staples of modern life, until now there has never been a full history of chewing gum.Chicle is a history in four acts, all of them focused on the sticky white substance that seeps from the sapodilla tree when its bark is cut. First, Jennifer Mathews recounts the story of chicle and its earliest-known adherents, the Maya and Aztecs. Second, with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816528219
SKU
V9780816528219
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