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Potato : A History of the Propitious Esculent.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (331 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300153996
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: PotatoDDC classification:
  • 635
LOC classification:
  • SB211.P8R43 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- List of Plates -- Part One: SOUTH AMERICA -- 1. To Mars from the Andes -- 2. What exactly is a potato? -- 3. Domestication -- 4. Whence have they come? -- 5. A dainty dish -- Part Two: EUROPE -- 6. The lonely impulse of delight -- 7. The way it was -- 8. The demoralising esculent -- 9. Where the praties grow -- 10. Seeds of famine -- 11. Woe the sons of Adam! -- Part Three: THE WORLD -- 12. The fatal malady -- 13. Co-opting science -- 14. Men on a mission -- 15. Global voyage -- 16. Developing worlds -- 17. For the price of apples -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- List of Plates -- Part One: SOUTH AMERICA -- 1. To Mars from the Andes -- 2. What exactly is a potato? -- 3. Domestication -- 4. Whence have they come? -- 5. A dainty dish -- Part Two: EUROPE -- 6. The lonely impulse of delight -- 7. The way it was -- 8. The demoralising esculent -- 9. Where the praties grow -- 10. Seeds of famine -- 11. Woe the sons of Adam! -- Part Three: THE WORLD -- 12. The fatal malady -- 13. Co-opting science -- 14. Men on a mission -- 15. Global voyage -- 16. Developing worlds -- 17. For the price of apples -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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