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Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and a foundational part of social and cultural histories. Such topics as famines, food supply, nutrition, and public health are addressed by historians specializing in every era and every nation.
Food in Time and Place delivers an unprecedented review of the state of historical research on food, endorsed by the American Historical Association, providing readers with a geographically, chronologically, and topically broad understanding of food cultures—from ancient Mediterranean and medieval societies to France and its domination of haute cuisine. Teachers, students, and scholars in food history will appreciate coverage of different thematic concerns, such as transfers of crops, conquest, colonization, immigration, and modern forms of globalization.
Food in Time and Place delivers an unprecedented review of the state of historical research on food, endorsed by the American Historical Association, providing readers with a geographically, chronologically, and topically broad understanding of food cultures—from ancient Mediterranean and medieval societies to France and its domination of haute cuisine. Teachers, students, and scholars in food history will appreciate coverage of different thematic concerns, such as transfers of crops, conquest, colonization, immigration, and modern forms of globalization.
Price: $49.95
Pages: 424
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
31 October 2014
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520283589
Format: Paperback
"Any remaining doubts about the legitimacy of food history are put to rest by this edited volume."
Paul Freedman is the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination and editor of Food: The History of Taste.
Joyce E. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. Her publications include Round about the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit and Benjamin Franklin’s Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity.
Ken Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Eating Right in the Renaissance; Beans: A History; The Banquet; and The Lost Art of Real Cooking.
Joyce E. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. Her publications include Round about the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit and Benjamin Franklin’s Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity.
Ken Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Eating Right in the Renaissance; Beans: A History; The Banquet; and The Lost Art of Real Cooking.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Paul Freedman
Introduction: Food History as a Field
Warren Belasco
Part One: Regional Histories
1. Premodern Europe
Ken Albala
2. China
E.{ths}N. Anderson
3. India
Jayanta Sengupta
4. Out of Africa: A Brief Guide to African Food History
Jessica B. Harris
5. Middle Eastern Food History
Charles Perry
6. Latin American Food between Export Liberalism and the Via Campesina
Jeffrey M. Pilcher
7. Food and the Material Origins of Early America
Joyce E. Chaplin
8. Food in Recent U.S. History
Amy Bentley and Hi’ilei Hobart
9. Influence, Sources, and African Diaspora Foodways
Frederick Douglass Opie
10. Migration, Transnational Cuisines, and Invisible Ethnics
Krishnendu Ray
Part Two: Cuisine
11. The French Invention of Modern Cuisine
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
12. Restaurants
Paul Freedman
13. Cookbooks as Resources for Social History
Barbara Ketcham Wheaton
Part Three: Problems
14. The Revolt against Homogeneity
Amy B. Trubek
15. Food and Popular Culture
Fabio Parasecoli
16. Post-1945 Global Food Developments
Peter Scholliers
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Preface
Paul Freedman
Introduction: Food History as a Field
Warren Belasco
Part One: Regional Histories
1. Premodern Europe
Ken Albala
2. China
E.{ths}N. Anderson
3. India
Jayanta Sengupta
4. Out of Africa: A Brief Guide to African Food History
Jessica B. Harris
5. Middle Eastern Food History
Charles Perry
6. Latin American Food between Export Liberalism and the Via Campesina
Jeffrey M. Pilcher
7. Food and the Material Origins of Early America
Joyce E. Chaplin
8. Food in Recent U.S. History
Amy Bentley and Hi’ilei Hobart
9. Influence, Sources, and African Diaspora Foodways
Frederick Douglass Opie
10. Migration, Transnational Cuisines, and Invisible Ethnics
Krishnendu Ray
Part Two: Cuisine
11. The French Invention of Modern Cuisine
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
12. Restaurants
Paul Freedman
13. Cookbooks as Resources for Social History
Barbara Ketcham Wheaton
Part Three: Problems
14. The Revolt against Homogeneity
Amy B. Trubek
15. Food and Popular Culture
Fabio Parasecoli
16. Post-1945 Global Food Developments
Peter Scholliers
List of Contributors
Index