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Political gastronomy : food and authority in the English Atlantic world /

""The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions, to submit to certain influences: from this is born political gastronomy. Meals have become a means of governing, and the fate of whole peopl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: LaCombe, Michael A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Early American studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. "Commutative Goodnesse": Food and Leadership
  • Chapter 2. "Art of Authority": Hunger, Plenty, and the Common Stores
  • Chapter 3. "By Shewing Power Purchasing Authoritie": Gender, Status, and Food Exchanges
  • Chapter 4. "Would Rather Want Then Borrow, or Starve Then Not Pay": Refiguring English Dependency
  • Chapter 5. "A Continuall and Dayly Table for Gentlemen of Fashion": Eating Like a Governor
  • Chapter 6. "To Manifest the Greater State": English and Indians at Table
  • Conclusion: "When Flesh Was Food": Reimagining the Early Period after 1660
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.