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Feast and Famine

By Clarkson, Leslie A.

Feast and Famine

By Clarkson, Leslie A.

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Feast and Famine traces the history of food and famine in Ireland from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. It looks at what people ate and drank, and how this changed over time. The authors explore the economic and social forces which lay behind these changes as well as the more personal motives of taste, preference, and acceptability. They analyze the reasons why the potato became a major component of the diet for so many people during the eighteenth century as well as the diets of the middling and upper classes. The authors also look at the relationship between the supply of food and the growth of the population and then finally, and unavoidably in any history of the Irish and food, the issue of famine, examining first its likelihood and then its dreadful reality when it actually occurred.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
2002-02-07
Publication Date:
2001-11-15
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198227515
ISBN13:
9780198227519
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
669 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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