TY - BOOK
AU - Reader, John
TI - Potato a history of the propitious esculent
PB - Yale Univ. Press
SN - 0300141092
SN - 9780300141092
KW - Potatoes
KW - Potatoes History
KW - Potatoes Social aspects
KW - Potato industry History
KW - Food crops History
KW - Kartoffel
KW - Kartoffelbau
KW - Geschichte
PY - 2009
N2 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-305) and index
N2 - Previously published as Propitious esculent by William Heinemann in 2008
N2 - 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 -- Seeds 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.
CY - New Haven, [Conn.]
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
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