Around the Tuscan Table. Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence, Paperback - Carole M. Counihan

Renowned food scholar Carole Counihan serves up a delicious narrative about family and food in twentieth-century Florence.

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DescriptionAcross the globe, people are challenging the agro-industrial food system and its exploitation of people and resources, reduction of loca...

DescriptionWith her new book, Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia, cultural anthropologist Carole Counihan makes a significant contribution to ...

Grace's seventieth birthday looms and she prepares a feast for twelve people, reflecting on the simmering tensions between the three generations th...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 30Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 36Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Associate Pr...

Transgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the...

DescriptionA fascinating look at the lives of women who bore the heat of day in Christian mission, but who were often forgotten by history until now.

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DescriptionIn the early 1980s, Duccio Balestracci discovered in a Sienese archive two account books kept from 1450 to 1502 by a Tuscan peasant name...

Supermarkets are a mundane feature in the landscape, but as Tracey Deutsch reveals, they represent a major transformation in the ways that American...

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Taking literary food studies in a new direction to explore the connections between what or how one eats and what one is. Focusing primarily on four...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology ...

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DescriptionWomen, Warfare and Representation considers the various ways the American servicewoman has been represented throughout the 20th century ...

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The first full biography for more than forty years of Hollywood legend, Carole LombardPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Michelle MorganIll...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

DescriptionA dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American ...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biogr...

Provides a comprehensive history of manufacturers, including the principal people involved and covers the various mechanical clock movements that w...

Reducere. Description "Catchin' babies" was merely one aspect of the broad role of African American midwives in the twentieth-century South. Yet, little has ...

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"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonizat...

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A new edition of this seminal survey on the history of graphic design in the twentieth century.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Richard Hol...

The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace. The Coca-Cola bottle and McDonald's logo are kno...

English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Andreas (Leuphana Universitat Luneburg) BroeckmannIllustration(s): 74 b&w illus., 16 color plates; 90 Illustrati...

Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing, 1880–2012 - Emily Cuming

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Description"Hey, what would you like today?" Lonely Planet has taken to the streets to bring you 80 fast, fresh and mouthwatering recipes from the ...

Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-...

Big Boards for Families features over 50 wholesome recipes for hosting and entertaining close friends and neighbors during casual get-togethers and...

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Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Gavin (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) RaeNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

Publisher: Mimesis InternationalAuthor(s): Cesereanu RuxandraNumber of pages: 204Collection: Speculum CivitatisPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 14...

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* A significant contribution to our understanding of how politics affects real people, and abrilliant blend of sweeping narrative and detailed anal...

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The volume offers a substantial and innovative appraisal of the role of the female voice from the perspective of twentieth-century performance prac...

China's Grandmothers explores the status and lives of grandmothers in China from the late Qing to the present. Using a wide range of historical and...

This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms. It highlights...

An exploration of the issues that arise when philosophers ask 'how are we to eat?'

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