Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.
Potato
Taschenbuch von Rebecca Earle
Sprache: Englisch

15,50 €*

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Aktuell nicht verfügbar

Kategorien:
Beschreibung
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Baked potatoes, Bombay potatoes, pommes frites . . . everyone eats potatoes, but what do they mean? To the United Nations they mean global food security (potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop). To 18th-century philosophers they promised happiness. Nutritionists warn that too many increase your risk of hypertension. For the poet Seamus Heaney they conjured up both his mother and the 19th-century Irish famine.

What stories lie behind the ordinary potato? The potato is entangled with the birth of the liberal state and the idea that individuals, rather than communities, should form the building blocks of society. Potatoes also speak about family, and our quest for communion with the universe. Thinking about potatoes turns out to be a good way of thinking about some of the important tensions in our world.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Baked potatoes, Bombay potatoes, pommes frites . . . everyone eats potatoes, but what do they mean? To the United Nations they mean global food security (potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop). To 18th-century philosophers they promised happiness. Nutritionists warn that too many increase your risk of hypertension. For the poet Seamus Heaney they conjured up both his mother and the 19th-century Irish famine.

What stories lie behind the ordinary potato? The potato is entangled with the birth of the liberal state and the idea that individuals, rather than communities, should form the building blocks of society. Potatoes also speak about family, and our quest for communion with the universe. Thinking about potatoes turns out to be a good way of thinking about some of the important tensions in our world.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Über den Autor
Rebecca Earle is Professor in History at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of three books, including The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2012), which was Winner of the Conference on Latin America History 2013 Bolton-Johnson Prize, and The Return of the Native: Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810-1930 (Duke University Press, 2008), which was Winner of the Conference on Latin American History's 2008 Bolton-Johnson Prize Honorable Mention. She has written about the history of food for The Conversation, BBC History Magazine, The Independent, and The Sunday Telegraph, among other publications.
Zusammenfassung
Potato mother - What unexpected kinships link people and potatoes?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Lying Around Like a Latke

1 Potato Mother
2 Global Citizens
3 The State of the Potato
4 Pleasure and Responsibility
5 Potato Philosophy

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 144
ISBN-13: 9781501344312
ISBN-10: 1501344315
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Earle, Rebecca
Redaktion: Schaberg, Christopher
Bogost, Ian
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Maße: 165 x 121 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Rebecca Earle
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.03.2019
Gewicht: 0,138 kg
preigu-id: 114089489
Über den Autor
Rebecca Earle is Professor in History at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of three books, including The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2012), which was Winner of the Conference on Latin America History 2013 Bolton-Johnson Prize, and The Return of the Native: Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810-1930 (Duke University Press, 2008), which was Winner of the Conference on Latin American History's 2008 Bolton-Johnson Prize Honorable Mention. She has written about the history of food for The Conversation, BBC History Magazine, The Independent, and The Sunday Telegraph, among other publications.
Zusammenfassung
Potato mother - What unexpected kinships link people and potatoes?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Lying Around Like a Latke

1 Potato Mother
2 Global Citizens
3 The State of the Potato
4 Pleasure and Responsibility
5 Potato Philosophy

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 144
ISBN-13: 9781501344312
ISBN-10: 1501344315
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Earle, Rebecca
Redaktion: Schaberg, Christopher
Bogost, Ian
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Maße: 165 x 121 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Rebecca Earle
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.03.2019
Gewicht: 0,138 kg
preigu-id: 114089489
Warnhinweis