Potato: a history of the propitious esculent
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Main Author: Reader, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] Yale Univ. Press 2009
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Item Description:Previously published as Propitious esculent by William Heinemann in 2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-305) and index
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 -- Sees 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 315 p.)
ISBN:0300141092
0300153996
9780300141092
9780300153996

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