Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521304385 ISBN 13 : 9780521304382

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1985

Synopsis

The essays in this 1985 volume direct attention to important questions on the relationship between food and history.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The essays in this 1985 volume direct attention to important questions on the relationship between food and history. Throughout human history, man has had to adapt and sustain himself by varying or expanding the basic kinds or forms of his nutritional staples, by migration, or by employing remarkable ingenuities to alter his environment. But we have as yet only a rudimentary understanding of nutrition and malnutrition in the past. The authors of these essays show how much of the past can be better understood if the distinctions which are obvious to clinicians and nutritionists are assimilated by historians. Likewise, this volume challenges assumptions about the mechanisms of population growth and decline, as well as theories of how populations react or adapt to constraints on their resources.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521304385
• ISBN 13: 9780521304382
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Éditeur: Rotberg Robert I., Rabb Theodore K.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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