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Osiris, Volume 35 Food Matters: Critical Histories of Food and the Sciences
ISBN: PB: 9780226726861, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Since the early modern period, science has played an ever-growing role in healthcare, agriculture, the regulation of food and drink trades, and the standardization of nutrition guidelines. Yet until now, few studies had explored the historical proces...
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£28,00
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Eating the Enlightenment Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760
ISBN: PB: 9780226214467, ISBN: HB: 9780226768861, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones
"Eating the Enlightenment" offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. Embracing a wide range of authors an...
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£24,00
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£39,00
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Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe Between Market and Laboratory
ISBN: HB: 9780226439686, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 tables, 21 halftones
It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences' systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In "Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe", the labor...
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£51,00
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