Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Evan D. G. Fraser

Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

Evan D. G. Fraser

302 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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Empires of Food is an authoritative exploration of the innumerable ways that food has changed the course of history. We've built complex societies by shunting corn and wheat and rice along rivers, up deforested hillsides, and into the stockpots of...

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