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Chicle : the chewing gum of the Americas, from the ancient Maya to William Wrigley /
From the Publisher: Although Juicy Fruit® gum was introduced to North Americans in 1893, Native Americans in Mesoamerica were chewing gum thousands of years earlier. And although in the last decade "biographies" have been devoted to salt, spices, chocolate, coffee, and other staples of mod...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1: Birth of the chewing gum tree
- 2: Botany of the sapodilla tree
- 3: History of the chewing gum industry in the Americas
- 4: Chicleros
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.