EARLY AMERICAN TABLE
Subtitle: Food and Society in the New World
Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ Pr; Northern Illinois University Press
Published: March 30, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780875803838
Subjects: Food & Drink / Cookery; Social history; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Customs & Traditions; United States - 18th Century; History / United States; General
Description: An exploration in the history of biopolitics, The Early American Table offers a unique study of the ways in which English colonists in North America incorporated the "you are what you eat" philosophy into their conception of themselves and their proper place in society. Eden aptly demonstrates that ideas about the body-ideas that may seem irrelevant or even laughable today-not only guided day-to-day personal behavior but also influenced society and politics.