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

Name: Empires of Food Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
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ISBN: 9781582437934

ISBN-10: 1582437939

ISBN-13: 9781582437934

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Authors: Evan D. G. Fraser, Andrew Rimas

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Publication date: 3/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction



The Price of Food


The Three Gorges Dam


The Rise and Fall of Food Empires, Past, Present, and Future



Fairs: The Food Trade


The Desert Fathers


Work, Pray, Eat


The Agricultural Revolution of A.D. 900


Fayre Is Fair


The Pendulum Swings


The Pendulum Swings Back


Manure from the Bones



Larders: What Do You Do with Ten Thousand Tons of Grain?


National Security and a War on Terror


Bread Alone


Not by Bread Alone: Oil and Fish


Hannibal Lectured


A Question of Logistics


Grounds for Exhaustion


How to Feed an Empire, Cheap


The Larder Is Empty



Farms: Growing Food for Profit and Environmental Rapine


The Grapes of Wrath


God in the Cup


The Weak Heart of Today's Food Empire



The Price Rises


An Experiment in Survival


Chicken Little or a Lot of Chicken?



Water: Irrigations Questionable Cure


Mesopotamia's Fix


In Praise of Grain


Oriental Despotism


Retreat of the Elephants


The Yellowing River


Water, Water Everywhere?



Dirt: The Chemistry of Life


The Story of N


In Praise of Phytoplankton


Fecal Politics


War Empires


The Birds of Peru



Ice: Preserve Us


How Food Rots and How to Slow It Down


It's a Jungle


The Industrial Garden State


Triumph of the Tomato


California Scheming


The Orange Juice Quandary



Empty Pockets


Storm Clouds



Blood: The Conquest of Food


Rebellion in the Spice Islands


Chiapas


The Moral Economy of Food


The Climate Trigger



Money: Tea and Famine


A Foundation in Pirates


Victorian High Tea


Her Majesty's Drug Cartel


"In America, There Could Be No Famine…"


The Great Hunger


The Food Empires Ahead



Time: Fair, Organic, and Slow


The Meaning of Fairness


Greener Pastures


The Snail Triumphant


Conclusion: The New Gluttony and Tomorrow's Menu


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index