Potato
Subtitle: a history of the propitious esculent
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780300141092
Table of contents: title: South America; title: To Mars from the Andes; title: What exactly is a potato?; title: Domestication; title: Whence have they come?; title: A dainty dish; title: Europe; title: The lonely impulse of delight; title: The way it was; title: The demoralising esculent; title: Where the praties grow; title: Seeds of famine; title: Woe the sons of Adam!; title: The world; title: The fatal malady; title: Co-opting science; title: Men on a mission; title: Global voyage; title: Developing worlds; title: For the price of apples