Food and the City in Europe since 1800

By: Lummel, Peter

Book Overview

This fascinating volume examines the impact that rapid urbanization has had upon diets and food systems throughout Western Europe over the past two centuries. Bringing together studies from across the continent, it stresses the fundamental links between key changes in European social history and food systems, food cultures and food politics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075464989X
• ISBN13: 9780754649892
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"