A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization
Kiple, Kenneth F.
ISBN 10: 1107657458 ISBN 13: 9781107657458
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2013
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Combining fascinating facts with historical evidence, this book is a sweeping narrative of food's place in the world.
About the Author: Kenneth F. Kiple is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His edited collections include The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease (2003); The Cambridge World History of Food (2000, with Kriemhild Conee Ornelas); Biological Consequences of European Expansion 1450–1800 (1997, with Stephen V. Beck); Plague, Pox, and Pestilence: Disease in History (1997); The Cambridge History of World Disease (1993); and The African Exchange: Toward a Biological History of Black People (1987). Kiple is author of The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History (1984); Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora: Diet, Disease, and Racism (1981); and Blacks in Colonial Cuba 1774–1899 (1976, with Virginia Himmelsteib King). His considerable body of written works also includes numerous articles and essays in scholarly journals and books. His work has been supported with grants and fellowships from institutions including the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society and the National Institutes of Health.
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Title: A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: paperback
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