Alex Drace-Francis: The Making of Mamaliga

Cover: 9789633866245 | The Making of Mamaliga | Alex Drace-Francis | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Mmlig, maize porridge or polenta, is a universally consumed dish in Romania and a prominent national symbol. But its unusual history has rarely been told. Alex Drace-Francis surveys the arrival and spread of maize cultivation in Romanian lands from Ottoman times to the eve of the First World War, and also the image of mmlig in art and popular culture. Drawing on a rich array of sources and with many new findings, Drace-Francis shows how the making of mmlig has been shaped by global economic forces and overlapping imperial systems of war and trade.

The story of maize and mmlig provides an accessible way to revisit many key questions of Romanian and broader regional history. More generally, the book links the history of production, consumption, and representation. Analyses of recipes, literary and popular depictions, and key vocabulary complete the work.

Über den Autor

Alex Drace-Francis is Associate Professor of Modern European Literary and Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romanian and Balkan social, cultural and literary history; on travel writing and circulation of ideas and images; and on European identity as a whole.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps, Graphs, Tables, Introduction: The Land is Waiting Chapter 1. From the Caribbean to the Carpathians: The Coming of Cucuruz, c.1492-1700 Chapter 2. Conquerors, Cultivators, and Collaborators: Maize at Empire's Edge, 1700-1774 Chapter 3. Conflict, Contagion and Commerce: The Triumph of Maize, 1774-1812 Chapter 4. Maize, Raki or Death: The Revolt of 1821 Reconsidered Chapter 5. mmlig 2.0: Maize on the World Market, 1821-1856 Chapter 6. Independence, Capitalism, Disease and Revolt; Or, Why the mmlig Exploded, 1856-1907 Chapter 7. Manna valachorum: Recipes at the Interface Chapter 8. 'The sparrow dreams of cornmeal, and the idle man of a day of rest': mmlig as Metaphor Conclusion: The Land is Waiting Appendix: Words and Things Glossary, Illustration, Credits, Acknowledgements, Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9789633866245
ISBN-10:	9633866243
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Drace-Francis, Alex
Hersteller:	Central European University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Alex Drace-Francis
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.09.2022
Gewicht:	0,335 kg