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

Rotberg, Robert I.

 
9780521315050: Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521315050 ISBN 13 : 9780521315050
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1981

Synopsis

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.

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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.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1981
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521315050
ISBN 13 
9780521315050
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
346
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
https://www.buchpark.de

Krügerweg 1
Trebbin
Brandenburg
14959
Allemagne

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9780521304382: Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521304385 ISBN 13 :  9780521304382
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1985
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