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Potato : a history of the propitious esculent / John Reader.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780300141092
- ISBN: 0300141092
- Physical Description: xvi, 315 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published as: Propitious esculent. London : William Heinemann, 2008. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-305) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | South America -- To Mars from the Andes -- What exactly is a potato? -- Domestication -- Whence have they come? -- A dainty dish -- Europe -- The lonely impulse of delight -- The way it was -- The demoralising esculent -- Where the praties grow -- Seeds of famine -- Woe the sons of Adam! -- The world -- The fatal malady -- Co-opting science -- Men on a mission -- Global voyage -- Developing worlds -- For the price of apples. |
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| Subject: | Potatoes. Potatoes > History. Potatoes > Social aspects. Potato industry > History. Food crops > History. Aardappel. Cultuurgeschiedenis. Voedselgewassen. |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | SB 211 .P8 R43 2009 | 30539654 | General Collection | Available | - |
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