Potato
Zuckerman, Larry
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Add to basketSold by Terrace Horticultural Books, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Association Member:
AbeBooks Seller since August 25, 2021
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketVery Good, Clean, Octavo, PP.313, How The Humble Spud Rescued The Western World; Provenance: From the library of Dr. Thomas Lovejoy 1941-2021 an American Ecologist, Yale University Graduate and President of the Amazon Biodiversity Center in Brazil. He also held appointments at the United Nations, George Mason University, and the World Bank and received recognition worldwide for his work including posthumously from the National Geographic Society with its highest honor the Hubbard Medal. Credited with E. O. Wilson of coining the term biological diversity in 1980, he spent his life working in science and public policy.
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The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France, and the United States as examples, Larry Zuckerman shows how daily life from the 1770s until World War I would have been unrecognizable-perhaps impossible-without the potato, which functioned as fast food, famine insurance, fuel and labor saver, budget stretcher, and bank loan, as well as delicacy. Drawing on personal diaries, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, and other primary sources, this is popular social history at its liveliest and most illuminating.
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