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“jillian azevedo”

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  • Tastes of the Empire

    Foreign Foods in Seventeenth Century England

    by Jillian Azevedo ...
    During the 17th century, England saw foreign foods made increasingly available to consumers and featured in recipe books, medical manuals, treatises, travel narratives, and even in plays. Yet the public's fascination with these foods went beyond just eating them. Through exotic presentations in popular culture, they were able to mentally partake of products for which they may not have had access. ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

    by Ian Mortimer ...
    Series series Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guides
    The past is a foreign country - this is your guide.We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Tudor Housewife

    by Alison Sim ...
    The political and military history of the sixteenth century is well known, and much written about, but what of the thousands of women who have, for the most part, eluded the historian's pen? The Tudor Housewife aims to answer this question, providing a unique and accessible introduction to the everyday life and responsibilities of women from all levels of society in the age of Henry VIII and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Adventure Of English

    The Biography of a Language

    by Melvyn Bragg ...
    'Superb'Spectator'C****onsistently entertaining'Independent'Impressive and sage'New Statesman'Bragg's affection for his subject is infectious'ObserverEnglish is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through ... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Year of Lear

    Shakespeare in 1606

    by James Shapiro ...
    Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America**, shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year—King Lear, Macbeth,** and Antony and Cleopatra. **“**The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (<strong... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Sweetness and Power

    The Place of Sugar in Modern History

    by Sidney W. Mintz ...
    A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern dietsIn this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A History of English Food

    by Clarissa Dickson Wright ...
    In this magnificent guide to England's cuisine, the inimitable Clarissa Dickson Wright takes us from a medieval feast to a modern-day farmers' market, visiting the Tudor working man's table and a Georgian kitchen along the way.Peppered with surprises and seasoned with wit, A History of England Food is a classic for any food lover. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Journal of the Plague Year

    by Daniel Defoe ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'a Casement violently opened just over my Head, and a Woman gave three frightful Skreetches, and then cry'd, Oh! Death, Death, Death!' Purporting to be an eye-witness account, the Journal of the Plague Year is a record of the devastation wrought by the Great Plague of 1665 on the city of London. Defoe's fictional narrator, known only as 'H. F.', recounts in vivid detail the progress of the disease ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Old Wives' Tales

    The History of Remedies, Charms and Spells

    by Mary Chamberlain ...
    We may all know that dandelions make us wet the bed, and that stewed prunes are a cure for constipation, but how many of us were aware that a poultice of chicken manure is a remedy for baldness? Or that eel liver will aid a difficult labour?The woman healer is as old as history. For millennia she has been doctor, nurse and midwife, and even in the age of modern medicine her wisdom is handed down ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Food and Feast in Tudor England

    by Alison Sim ...
    This book provides an excellent overview of Tudor food and eating habits. Chapters cover food and society in the sixteenth century, kitchens and cooking, what people drank, food and health (including Tudor ideas on healthy eating), setting the table and table manners, feasting and banquets.Alison Sim shows that dining habits in the sixteenth century were not the same as those of the Middle Ages ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bittersweet

    The story of sugar

    by Peter Macinnis ...
    Forty years after first chewing on sugar cane in New Guinea, the home of sugar, the author underwent some complex dental work as a direct result of his sweet tooth. This led him to explore sugar cane's journey from New Guinea to Shakespeare's England. In the days before dentistry, people paid dearly for this sweet new food from exotic places. Queen Elizabeth I became so partial to hippocras, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Heart and Stomach of a King

    Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power

    by Carole Levin ...
    In her famous speech to rouse the English troops staking out Tilbury at the mouth of the Thames during the Spanish Armada's campaign, Queen Elizabeth I is said to have proclaimed, "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king." Whether or not the transcription is accurate, the persistent attribution of this provocative statement to England's most ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD