Empires of food
Subtitle: feast, famine, and the rise and fall of civilizations
By: Evan D.G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas
Contributors: Rimas, Andrew
Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781439101896
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The price of food. The three gorges dam; title: chapter 1. Fairs: the food trade; title: chapter 2. Larders: what do you do with ten thousand tons of grain?; title: chapter 3. Farms: growing food for profit and environmental rapine; title: Pt. 2. The price rises. An experiment in survival; title: chapter 4. Water: irrigation's questionable cure; title: chapter 5. Dirt: the chemistry of life; title: chapter 6. Ice: preserve us; title: Pt. 3. Empty pockets. Storm clouds; title: chapter 7. Blood: the conquest of food; title: chapter 8. Money: tea and famine; title: chapter 9. Time: fair, organic, and slow; title: Conclusion: the new gluttony and tomorrow's menu.