Oxford Handbook of Food History

Name: Oxford Handbook of Food History
Brand: Oxford University Press
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By Pilcher, Jeffrey M

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Food matters, not only as a subject of study in its own right, but also as a medium for conveying critical messages about capitalism, the environment, and social inequality to diverse audiences. Recent scholarship on the subject draws from both a pathbreaking body of secondary literature and an inexhaustible wealth of primary sources--from ancient Chinese philosophical tracts to McDonald's menus--contributing new perspectives to the historical study of food, culture, and society, and challenging the limits of history itself. The Oxford Handbook of Food History places existing works in historiographical context, crossing disciplinary, chronological, and geographic boundaries while also suggesting new routes for future research. The twenty-seven essays in this book are organized into five sections: historiography, disciplinary approaches, production, circulation, and consumption of food. The first two sections examine the foundations of food history, not only in relation to key developments in the discipline of history itself--such as the French Annales school and the cultural turn--but also in anthropology, sociology, geography, pedagogy, and the emerging Critical Nutrition Studies. The following three sections sketch various trajectories of food as it travels from farm to table, factory to eatery, nature to society. Each section balances material, cultural, and intellectual concerns, whether juxtaposing questions of agriculture and the environment with the notion of cookbooks as historical documents; early human migrations with modern culinary tourism; or religious customs with social activism. In its vast, interdisciplinary scope, this handbook brings students and scholars an authoritative guide to a field with fresh insights into one of the most fundamental human concerns.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 538
Release Date:: 2012-10-16
Publication Date:: 2012-10-01
Publisher:: Oxford University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 019972993X
ISBN13:: 9780199729937
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 1097 g
Height:: 17.5 cm
Width:: 25 cm
Thickness:: 3.3 cm

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