[PDF.17zq] The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World

The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World

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 | #822588 in Books |  North Point Press |  1999-10-25 |  1999-10-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.3 x5.50l,.60 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting but spotty in coverage. Not comprehensive.|By Paul Eckler|"Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World," by Larry Zuckerman, North Point Press, NY, 1998. This 320 p. paperback tells the story of the potato, but the focus is the Irish potato famine of the late 1840s. The potato was discovered by the Spanish in South America in 1537, but was not adopted|.com |During the 17th and 18th centuries, the potato was berated, feared, and loathed. It was blamed for everything from population explosions to population implosions, not to mention social upheaval and financial despair. Yet now, with the luxury of hindsight,

The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France, and the United States as examples, Larry Zuckerman shows how daily life from the 1770s until World War I would have been unrecognizable-perhaps impossible-without the potato, which functioned as fast food, famine insurance, fuel and labor saver, budget stretcher, a...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World   |  Larry Zuckerman. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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