Feeding the People : The Politics of the Potato

by Rebecca Earle

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10 1108484069

ISBN-13 9781108484060

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 25th, 2020

Print length 308 Pages

Weight 584 grams

Dimensions 15.80 x 23.40 x 2.70 cms

Product Classification: General & world history Food & society Economic history

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Almost no one knew what a potato was in 1500. Today everyone eats them. This book traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes to everywhere. En route it helps explain why we feel so ambivalent about governmental dietary guidelines and celebrates the contributions of ordinary people to shaping how we eat.

Potatoes are the world''s fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Feeding the People traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes to everywhere. The potato''s global history reveals the ways in which our ideas about eating are entangled with the emergence of capitalism and its celebration of the free market. It also reminds us that ordinary people make history in ways that continue to shape our lives. Feeding the People tells the story of how eating became part of statecraft, and provides a new account of the global spread of one of the world''s most successful foods.

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