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Synopsis

This book addresses the relationship between food consumption, status and power at the royal courts of Europe in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The volume addresses issues of social networks, prestige, politics and diplomacy, banquets and their design, income and spending, economic aims, taste and preference, cultural innovations, social hierarchies, material culture, and many more social and cultural issues. It will provide a useful entry into food history for scholars of court culture and anyone with an interest in modern cultural history.

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À propos de l'auteur

Daniëlle De Vooght is a postdoctoral researcher at the History Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. She is a member of FOST, a research group on Social and Cultural Food Studies.

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