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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2012.
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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.