1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390781603316

Autore

Boyle Robert <1627-1691.>

Titolo

A defence of the doctrine touching the spring and weight of the air [[electronic resource] ] : propos'd by Mr. R. Boyle in his New physico-mechanical experiments, against the objections of Franciscus Linus : wherewith the objector's funicular hypothesis is also examin'd / / by the author of those experiments

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by M. Flesher for Richard Davis, 1682

Descrizione fisica

[10], 117 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill

Soggetti

Air

Air-pump

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778191903321

Autore

Diner Hasia R

Titolo

Hungering for America : Italian, Irish, and Jewish foodways in the age of migration / / Hasia R. Diner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-674-26301-4

0-674-03425-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations

Disciplina

394.108900973

Soggetti

Italians - Food - United States

Irish - Food - United States

Jews - Food - United States

Immigrants - United States

Food habits - United States

Food habits - Europe

Famines - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Ways of Eating, Ways of Starving -- 2. Black Bread, Hard Bread: Food, Class, and Hunger in Italy -- 3. “The Bread Is Soft”: Italian Foodways, American Abundance -- 4. “Outcast from Life’s Feast”: Food and Hunger in Ireland -- 5. The Sounds of Silence: Irish Food in America -- 6. A Set Table: Jewish Food and Class in Eastern Europe -- 7. Food Fights: Immigrant Jews and the Lure of America -- 8. Where There Is Bread, There Is My Country -- Notes -- Index