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  • Pomodoro!

    A History of the Tomato in Italy

    de David Gentilcore ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table Perspectives on Culinary History
    A chronicle of the beloved base ingredient, from its origins, agricultural riches, and controversy to the passion, pride, and nostalgia it inspires today.Over time, the tomato has embodied a range of values and meanings. From its domestication in Central America, it has traveled back and forth across the Atlantic, powering a story of aspiration and growth, agriculture and industry, class and ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Proteins, Pathologies and Politics

    Dietary Innovation and Disease from the Nineteenth Century

    Edición de Dr Matthew Smith, Professor David Gentilcore ...
    Proteins, Pathologies and Politics presents an international and historical approach to dietary change and health, contrasting current concerns with how issues such as diabetes, cancer, vitamins, sugar and fat, and food allergies were perceived in the 19th and 20th centuries. Though what we eat and what we shouldn't eat has become a topic of increased scrutiny in the current century, the link ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Italy and the Potato: A History, 1550-2000

    de Professor David Gentilcore ...
    Italy, like the rest of Europe, owes a lot to the 'Columbian exchange'. As a result of this process, in addition to potatoes, Europe acquired maize, tomatoes and most types of beans. All are basic elements of European diet and cookery today. The international importance of the potato today as the world's most cultivated vegetable highlights its place in the Columbian exchange.While the history of ... Leer más

    $153.99 USD

  • Food and Health in Early Modern Europe

    Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450-1800

    de Professor David Gentilcore ...
    CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is both a history of food practices and a history of the medical discourse about that food. It is also an exploration of the interaction between the two: the relationship between evolving foodways and shifting medical advice on what to eat in order to stay healthy. It provides the first in-depth study of printed dietary ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity During the Long Nineteenth Century

    de David Gentilcore, Egidio Priani ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to maize, and which was first identified in Italy in the 1760s. With a focus on the insanity that was caused by the disease, the authors examine how thousands of patients were treated in Italian psychiatric asylums, shedding light on the sufferer’s point of view. Setting ... Leer más

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  • Fearing the Black Body

    The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

    de Sabrina Strings ...
    Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHow the female body has been racialized for over two hundred yearsThere is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased ... Leer más

    $22.79 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Professor of Secrets

    Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy

    de William Eamon ...
    In the tradition of Galileo's Daughter and Brunelleschi's Dome, this exciting story illuminates the captivating world of the late Renaissance—in this case its plagues, remedies, and alchemy—through the life of Leonardo Fioravanti, a brilliant, remarkably forward-thinking, and utterly unconventional doctor. Fioravanti's marvelous cures and talent for self-aggrandizement earned him the adoration of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Loris Malaguzzi and the Schools of Reggio Emilia

    A selection of his writings and speeches, 1945-1993

    Edición de Paola Cagliari, Marina Castagnetti, Claudia Giudici, Carlina Rinaldi, Vea Vecchi, Peter Moss ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    Loris Malaguzzi was one of the most important figures in 20th century early childhood education, achieving world-wide recognition for his educational ideas and his role in the creation of municipal schools for young children in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, the most successful example ever of progressive, democratic and public education.Despite Malaguzzi’s reputation, very little of what he ... Leer más

    $86.99 USD

  • Cultures of Plague

    Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance

    de Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. ...
    Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop. This study of ... Leer más

    $56.99 USD

  • Florence Under Siege

    Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City

    de John Henderson ...
    A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plaguePlague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suffered, and survived the impact of plague. Going beyond traditional oppositions between rich and poor, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Child Is the Teacher

    A Life of Maria Montessori

    de Cristina De Stefano ...
    Traducido por Gregory Conti ...
    A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children’s minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci.Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria Montessori would grow up to embody almost every trait men of her era detested in the fairer sex. She was self-confident, strong-willed, and had a fiery temper at a time when women were supposed to be ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Murder Made in Italy

    Homicide, Media, and Contemporary Italian Culture

    de Ellen Nerenberg ...
    A study of three high-profile Italian murder cases, how they were covered by the media, and what it all says about Italian culture.Looking at media coverage of three very prominent murder cases, Murder Made in Italy explores the cultural issues raised by the murders and how they reflect developments in Italian civil society over the past twenty years. Providing detailed descriptions of each murder ... Leer más

    $9.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus