Empires of Food : Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

Empires of Food : Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

Andrew Rimas, Evan Fraser

Språken
FörlagAtria Books
ISBN9781439110133

We are what we eat: this aphorism contains a profound truth about civilization, one that has played out on the world historical stage over many millennia of human endeavor. Using the colorful diaries of a sixteenth-century merchant as a narrative guide, Empires of Food vividly chronicles the fate o