Food History: Critical and Primary Sources (Critical and Primary Sources)

Food History: Critical and Primary Sources (Critical and Primary Sources)

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Table of Contents: Volume One: Origins [to 500 BCE]Evolution and DomesticationForaging and FarmingEarly Agrarian and Pastoral SocietiesVolume Two: Classical and Postclassical Eras [500 BCE TO 1500 CE]Field and KitchenHigh and LowExchange and ReciprocityDiet and HealthVolume...

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Table of Contents:

Volume One: Origins [to 500 BCE]
Evolution and Domestication
Foraging and Farming
Early Agrarian and Pastoral Societies
Volume Two: Classical and Postclassical Eras [500 BCE TO 1500 CE]
Field and Kitchen
High and Low
Exchange and Reciprocity
Diet and Health
Volume Three: Global Contact and Early Industrialization [1500 to 1900 CE]
The Columbian Exchange
Commercial Transformations
Culinary Revolutions
Diet and Science
Volume Four: Contemporary Transitions [from 1900 CE]
Food Politics
Industrial Foods
Culinary Cultures
Dietary Health
Appendix of Sources



Biographical Note:


Jeffrey M. Pilcher is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, USA.



Publisher Marketing:


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 Bringing together over 80 high-quality essays drawn from journal articles, book chapters, excerpts and historical documents and supported by introductory essays and a wealth of contextual material, this important new reference work combines contemporary scholarship with selected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 from human evolution and the origins of complex societies to the agrarian and pastoral societies of the classical and post-classical eras, to the age of global contact and early industrialization, to the transition to industrial diets in the contemporary era. Each volume is introduced by an essay from the editor and is divided into broad thematic categories and offers a range of methodological approaches, multidisciplinary appeal and broad geographical coverage, highlighting how the field has developed over time and investigating how and why food is different at different points in world history.

This will be an essential addition to libraries and a major scholarly resource for researchers involved in the study of food in world history.



Review Citations:

  • Library Journal 12/01/2014 pg. 129 (EAN 9780857854230, Hardcover)