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Feeding France : new sciences of food, 1760-1815

Title
Feeding France : new sciences of food, 1760-1815 / E.C. Spary.
Author
Spary, E. C. (Emma C.)
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Description
xi, 418 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"Feeding France is the first comprehensive study of the French food industry in the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789. Though the history of gastronomy and the restaurant have been explored by scholars, few are aware that France was also one of the first nations to produce industrial foods. In this time of political and social upheaval, chemists managed to succeed both as public food experts and as industrial food manufacturers. This book explores the intersection between knowledge, practice and commerce which made this new food expertise possible, and the institutional and experimental culture which housed it. Ranging from the exigencies of Old Regime bread-making to the industrial showcasing of gelatine manufacture, Emma Spary rewrites the history of the French relationship with food to show that industrialisation and patrimonialism were intimately intertwined"--
Series Statement
Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories ; no. 21
Uniform Title
Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 21.
Subject
  • 1700-1899
  • 1700-talet
  • 1800-talet
  • Food industry and trade > France > History > 18th century
  • Food industry and trade > France > History > 19th century
  • Medicine > History > 18th century
  • Food Industry > history
  • History, 18th Century
  • History, 19th Century
  • 44.21 nutrition
  • HISTORY > Europe > General
  • Medicine
  • Food industry and trade
  • Landwirtschaft
  • Ernährung
  • Levensmiddelenindustrie
  • Aliments > Indústria i comerç > Història > França > S. XVIII-XIX
  • Nutrition policy > France > History
  • Livsmedelsindustri > historia
  • France
  • Frankreich
  • Frankrijk
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Economic eaters; 2. The kingdom of bread; 3. The matter of nourishment; 4. Health foods and the medical marketplace; 5. The potato republic; 6. Making more out of meat; 7. Political palates; 8. The empire of habit; Conclusion; Bibliography.
ISBN
  • 9781107031050
  • 1107031052
  • 1139950258
  • 9781139950251
  • 1139381180
  • 9781139381185
LCCN
2013047254
OCLC
  • ocn874732750
  • 874732750
  • SCSB-1787538
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library