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The Potato:

How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
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Macmillan, 25/10/1999 - 336 páginas
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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Review: The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World

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This is the first time I have read anything about a crop that contains such detail. I can't imagine how much time is put to the writing of this. It's more than just the history of the potato, it used ...

Review: The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World

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The author of this book is a historian's historian. He is conscience that his is writing what some call a "social history" and says so early on. And he is...but many of these secret histories, of ...

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A Passion for Thrift
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The Lumpers They Were Black
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11
229
12
252
13
265
Notes
273
Selected Bibliography
303
Index
315
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Sobre o autor (1999)

Larry Zuckerman is a freelance editor and writer. He lives in Seattle with his wife and young son.

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