LEADER 03808nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910461335503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-15064-6 010 $a9786613150646 010 $a0-300-17539-6 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300175394 035 $a(CKB)2670000000095630 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050189 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000524192 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11327325 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000524192 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10545791 035 $a(PQKB)10742589 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420707 035 $a(DE-B1597)486051 035 $a(OCoLC)738478543 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300175394 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420707 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10480877 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL315064 035 $a(OCoLC)923596177 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000095630 100 $a20110203d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMilk$b[electronic resource] $ea local and global history /$fDeborah Valenze 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-11724-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. The culture of milk -- pt. 2. Feeding people -- pt. 3. Industry, science, and medicine -- pt. 4. Milk as modern. 330 $a"How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the rituals and beliefs that have governed milk production and consumption since its use in the earliest societies. Covering the long span of human history, Milk reveals how developments in technology, public health, and nutritional science made this once-rare elixir a modern-day staple. The book looks at the religious meanings of milk, along with its association with pastoral life, which made it an object of mystery and suspicion during medieval times and the Renaissance. As early modern societies refined agricultural techniques, cow's milk became crucial to improving diets and economies, launching milk production and consumption into a more modern phase. Yet as business and science transformed the product in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, commercial milk became not only a common and widely available commodity but also a source of uncertainty when used in place of human breast milk for infant feeding. Valenze also examines the dairy culture of the developing world, looking at the example of India, currently the world's largest milk producer. Ultimately, milk's surprising history teaches us how to think about our relationship to food in the present, as well as in the past. It reveals that although milk is a product of nature, it has always been an artifact of culture"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"A history of milk and its many uses in different cultures of the world"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aMilk$xHistory 606 $aMilk$xSocial aspects 606 $aCooking (Milk)$xHistory 606 $aDairy products$xHistory 606 $aFood habits$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMilk$xHistory. 615 0$aMilk$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aCooking (Milk)$xHistory. 615 0$aDairy products$xHistory. 615 0$aFood habits$xHistory. 676 $a641.3/7109 700 $aValenze$b Deborah M.$f1953-$0252657 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461335503321 996 $aMilk$92461470 997 $aUNINA