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Food History: Critical and Primary Sources
Jeffrey Pilcher
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Description for Food History: Critical and Primary Sources
Multiple-component retail product. This major reference work provides a comprehensive survey of food history. With over 80 high-quality sources, introductory essays and a wealth of contextual material, this will be a major scholarly resource for researchers of food throughout world history. Editor(s): Pilcher, Jeffrey M. Series: Critical and Primary Sources. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCV; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 169 x 119. Weight in Grams: 3781.
Food History: Critical and Primary Sources is an indispensable four-volume reference collection which focuses on the widest possible span of food in human history, to provide a comprehensive survey of problems and methods in the field of food history. Bringing together over 80 high-quality essays drawn from journal articles, book chapters, excerpts and historical documents and supported by introductory essays and a wealth of contextual material, this important new reference work combines contemporary scholarship with selected primary sources allowing scholars to use this as a starting point for their own historical research. The volumes are divided chronologically, moving ... Read more
Food History: Critical and Primary Sources is an indispensable four-volume reference collection which focuses on the widest possible span of food in human history, to provide a comprehensive survey of problems and methods in the field of food history. Bringing together over 80 high-quality essays drawn from journal articles, book chapters, excerpts and historical documents and supported by introductory essays and a wealth of contextual material, this important new reference work combines contemporary scholarship with selected primary sources allowing scholars to use this as a starting point for their own historical research. The volumes are divided chronologically, moving ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Critical and Primary Sources
Condition
New
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857854230
SKU
V9780857854230
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Ref
99-10
About Jeffrey Pilcher
Jeffrey M. Pilcher is Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of books on food in Mexican and world history, including the prize-winning Que vivan los tamales! Food and the Making of Mexican History, The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise and Meat in Mexico City and Food in World History. He is also ... Read more
Reviews for Food History: Critical and Primary Sources
According to its preface, this set “seeks to guide readers through the voluminous literature now available on the history and culture of food.” This interdisciplinary, chronologically arranged collection of 76 previously published works compiled by Pilcher begins with human evolution and the establishment of agrarian and pastoral societies and ends with coverage of provisions in the 21st century. VERDICT: ... Read more