Food in World History (Themes in World History) 1st Edition

by Jeffrey Pilcher (Author)

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Providing a comparative and comprehensive study of culinary cultures and consumption throughout the world from ancient times to present day, this book examines the globalization of food and explores the political, social and environmental implications of our changing relationship with food.

Including numerous case studies from diverse societies and periods, Food in World History examines and focuses on:

how food was used to forge national identities in Latin America
the influence of Italian and Chinese Diaspora on the US and Latin America food culture
how food was fractured along class lines in the French bourgeois restaurant culture and working class cafes
the results of state intervention in food production
how the impact of genetic modification and food crises has affected the relationship between consumer and product.

This concise and readable survey not only presents a simple history of food and its consumption, but also provides a unique examination of world history itself.

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'This is a solid little book that does an admirable job of incorporating a good deal of recent scholarship on food and foodways in a succinct and accessible fashion ... Food in World History is a welcome addition to the literature on early modern and modern food history, both for its conciseness and its solidly global approach.' - Eric R. Dursteler, Brigham Young University in Canadian Journal of History, spring-summer 2008

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Jeffrey M. Pilcher is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. Author of Que vivan los tamales! Food and the Making of Mexican Identity (1998), he has also published essays in the American Historical Review, The Americas and Food, Culture and Society.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (December 20, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415311462
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415311465
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.33 x 9.21 inches

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Peter G. Buckley

A sketch for something bigger

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2008

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I admire Pilcher's work. He is a good, original scholar. But this seems to be a hastily prepared book for a market that desparately needs a panoramic text on this subject. Unfortunately this is just too light in the coverage. I don't get the sense of real exploration of the subject that characterizes his work on Mexico. I was hoping this might serve as a course text but there's not enough meat.

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Lapi

Good book for seriuos readers and social scientists

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2013

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the book is an excellent resume of the history of food from a social scientis point of view. its an introduction to this theme

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Muriel

Wouldn’t recommend unless you are a very strong reader

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2017

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I only purchased this because we used it in a food history class but it was an extremely hard read. I ended up not even reading it when I realized I didn't need it for the quizzes. Wouldn’t recommend unless you are a very strong reader, I’m in a bachelors program that required a history class and it definitely wasn’t a 100 level course reading.

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