The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
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Some creasing and scuffing to dust jacket. Staining and discoloration on page edges. Binding strong and text clean. All proceeds from purchases from BooksKC go to benefit the Rehabilitation Institute of Kansas City, a nonprofit organization which provides job services, training, and employment to individuals with disabilities.

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ancient,cooking,cooking,early civilization,essays,europe,historical study and educational resources,history,politics and social sciences,potatoes, During the 17th and 18th centuries, the potato was berated, feared, and loathed. It was blamed for everything from population explosions to population implosions, not to mention social upheaval and financial despair. Yet now, with the luxury of hindsight, Larry Zuckerman regards the potato as a saving grace for Western civilization, a crop that protected populations from starvation, encouraged self-sufficiency, and improved the lives of ordinary people. The potato's roller-coaster journey from dreary boiled peasant food into the most widely consumed vegetable on the planet is chronicled in this refreshing history lesson. The Potato goes way beyond the usual scope of spud history, which commonly focuses on the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. Although this disaster is a key event in the book, the potato's broader influence in the Western world was far more complex--changing the shape of agrarian societies, triggering world emigration, and even influencing social-welfare reforms. Snippets from journals, newspaper editorials, and government documents make this a convincing and fascinating glimpse of four centuries' worth of a vegetable to which we normally wouldn't give a second thought. --Naomi Gesinger.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, AleeYakee.
The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France, and the United States as examples, Larry Zuckerman shows how daily life from the 1770s until World War I would have been unrecognizable-perhaps impossible-without the potato, which functioned as fast food, famine insurance, fuel and labor saver, budget stretcher, and bank loan, as well as delicacy. Drawing on personal diaries, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, and other primary sources, this is popular social history at its liveliest and most illuminating., Hardcover, Label: Faber & Faber, Faber & Faber, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1998-06, Studio: Faber & Faber, Verkaufsrang: 1663209.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, bookstore brengelman.
Faber & Faber. Very Good/Very Good. 1998. 0571199518 .

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, More Than Words Inc.
Faber & Faber. Used - Good.