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Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history
- Title
- Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history / Rachel Laudan.
- Author
- Laudan, Rachel, 1944-
- Publication
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2013.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 464 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. Laudan's innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans.
- Series Statement
- California studies in food and culture ; 43
- Uniform Title
- California studies in food and culture ; 43.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-438) and index.
- Contents
- Mastering grain cookery, 2,000-300 B.C.E. -- The barley-wheat sacrificial cuisines of the ancient empires, 500 B.C.E.-400 C.E -- Buddhism transforms the cuisines of south and east Asia, 260 B.C.E.-800 C.E. -- Islam transforms the cuisines of central and west Asia, 800-1650 C.E. -- Christianity transforms the cuisines of Europe and the Americas, 100-1650 C.E. -- Prelude to modern cuisines: Northern Europe, 1650-1800 -- Modern cuisines: the expansion of middling cuisines, 1810-1920 -- Modern cuisines: the globalization of modern cuisines, 1920-2000.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-4949
- ISBN
- 9780520266452 (hc.)
- 0520266455 (hc.)
- LCCN
- 2012038609
- OCLC
- 811427034
- Author
- Laudan, Rachel, 1944-
- Title
- Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history / Rachel Laudan.
- Imprint
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2013.
- Series
- California studies in food and culture ; 43California studies in food and culture ; 43.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-438) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-4949