How Food Made History

by B.W. Higman

Book Overview

Covering 5,000 years of global history, How Food Made History traces the changing patterns of food production and consumption that have molded economic and social life and contributed fundamentally to the development of government and complex societies.

Charts the changing technologies that have increased crop yields, enabled the industrial processing and preservation of food, and made transportation possible over great distances...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405189487
• ISBN13: 9781405189484
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"