1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009306610403321

Autore

Fagiani, Maria Luisa

Titolo

Inquietudini urbane : da I love Lucy a Desperate Housewives / Maria Luisa Fagiani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Soveria Mannelli (Catanzaro) : Rubbettino, 2010

ISBN

978-88-498-2655-5

Descrizione fisica

107 p. : 22 cm

Collana

Rubbettino Università

Disciplina

791.45655

Locazione

BFS

Collocazione

791.45 FAG 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Contiene bibl. (pp. 101-107)



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146436103321

Autore

Grew Raymond

Titolo

Food In Global History [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Westview Press, 2008

ISBN

0-429-98004-3

1-4294-8913-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Disciplina

641.3

641.309

Soggetti

Food -- History

Food -- Social aspects -- History

Food

Global history

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Food and Global History; Part 1 The History of Food in Global Perspectives; 2 Circles of Growing and Eating: The Political Ecology of Food and Agriculture; 3 The Impact of New World Food Crops on the Diet and Economy of China and India, 1600-1900; 4 All the World's a Restaurant: On the Global Gastronomics of Tourism and Travel; 5 On ""Cabbages and Kings"": The Politics of Jewish Identity in Post-Colonial French Society and Cuisine; Part 2 Public Policy and Global Science

6 Food Policies, Nutrition Policies, and Their Influence on Processes of Change: European Examples7 Food Policy Research in a Global Context: The West African Sahel; 8 Child Nutrition in Developing Countries and Its Policy Consequences; Part 3 Global Systems and Human Diet; 9 Food System Globalization, Eating Transformations, and Nutrition Transitions; 10 Fat and Sugar in the Global Diet: Dietary Diversity in the Nutrition Transition; 11 The 'Mad Cow' Crisis: A Global Perspective; Part 4 Eating Together Globally; 12 The Family Meal and Its Significance in Global Times

13 We Eat Each Other's Food to Nourish Our Body: The Global and the



Local as Mutually Constituent Forces14 Food and the Counterculture: A Story of Bread and Politics; List of Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Social scientists have studied foods in many different ways. Historians have most often studied the history of specific foods, and anthropologists have emphasized the role of food in religious rituals and group identities. Sociologists have looked primarily at food as an indicator of social class and a factor in social ties, and nutritionists have focused on changing patterns of consumption and applied medical knowledge to study the effects of diet on public health. Some scholars from these and other disciplines have studied the economic and political connections created around commerce i