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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- LINE-CUT ILLUSTRATIONS -- PROLOGUE -- BOOK ONE-The Bread of Prehistoric Man -- THE RIDDLE OF THE ANTS -- THE INVENTION OF THE PLOW -- THE RIVALRY OF THE GRASSES -- BOOK TWO-Bread in the Ancient World -- EGYPT: THE DISCOVERY OF BAKING -- ISRAEL: IN THE SWEAT OF THY FACE -- GREECE: THE PASSION OF THE SEED CORN -- GREECE: THE BREAD CHURCH OF ELEUSIS -- ROME: BREAD IN POLITICS -- ROME: THE BREAD GOD, JESUS CHRIST -- BOOK THREE-Bread in the Middle Ages -- NEW PEOPLES ON OLD SOIL -- MONKS, DEMONS, PEASANTS -- THE MILLER WAS AN EVIL MAN -- AND THE BAKER STARVED US -- THE CENTURIES OF HUNGER -- THE MAN WITH THE HOE -- THE BLEEDING BREAD -- LE PAIN SE LÈVE-THE PEASANT REBELS -- THE FIGHT OVER THE LORD'S SUPPER -- BOOK FOUR-Bread in the Early Americas -- MAIZE-THE GREAT WAYFARER -- THE DAY OF THE POTATO -- BETWEEN SQUANTO AND OLIVER EVANS -- BOOK FIVE-Bread in the Nineteenth Century -- CAN SCIENCE PREVENT A REVOLUTION? -- BREAD: ACTOR IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION -- BREAD IN NAPOLEON'S DEFEAT -- LINCOLN: BREAD WAS GREATER THAN COTTON -- McCORMICK: THE MACHINE THAT CONQUERS-THE FIELDS -- LIEBIG: EARTH WAS IN NEED OF A HEALER -- CHALLENGE TO MALTHUS -- AMERICA'S EMPIRE OF WHEAT -- BOOK SIX-Bread in Our Time -- HOW BREAD HELPED WIN WORLD WAR I -- RUSSIA'S BREAD-1917 -- HOW BOTANISTS CHANGED THE MAP -- FARMERS' SALVATION -- DEMETER WARNS HER PEOPLE AGAIN -- BREAD, HEALTH, BUSINESS, AND THE SOUL OF MAN -- HITLER'S "PACTE DE FAMINE" -- POSTSCRIPT AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER.
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