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The History and Social Influence of the Potato / Redcliffe N. Salaman ; with a chapter on industrial uses by W. G. Burton.
LIBRA - Blank Collection SB211.P8 S255 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salaman, Redcliffe N. (Redcliffe Nathan), 1874-1955.
- Burton, W. G. (William Glynn), author of chapter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Potatoes--History.
- Potatoes.
- Potatoes--Social aspects.
- Solanum tuberosum.
- History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Solanum tuberosum.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xliv, 685 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Revised impression / edited by J. G. Hawkes Emeritus Professor of Plant Biology, University of Birmingham.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [1985]
- Contents:
- Immigrant Man and the Andean Potato
- The Archaeological Record
- The Potato in Pre-Spanish Peru
- The Inca Period
- The Potatoes of America and their Relation to the Early European Varieties
- Early Descriptions of the Potato in Europe
- 'Vertues', Vices and Values
- Names and Aliases
- The Introduction to Europe: The Raleigh and other Legends
- Potato Varieties: Past, Present and Future
- The Potato in Ireland in the Sixteenth Century
- The Potato in Ireland in the Seventeenth Century
- The Potato in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century
- The Period of Irish Self-Government
- Ireland in the Nineteenth Century
- The Potato Famine: Its Causes and Consequences
- The Potato in Post-Famine Ireland
- The Potato's Part in the Tragedy of Ireland
- The Potato in Scotland
- The Potato in the Highlands of Scotland
- The Potato in the Lowlands of Scotland
- The Potato in Wales
- The Potato of Shakespeare and the Jacobeans
- The Seventeenth Century: The First Hundred Years of the Potato's Progress in Great Britain
- The Eighteenth Century
- The Nineteenth Century and After
- The Relation between Potato and Bread Consumption
- The Potato in Tristan da Cunha
- The Potato in St Helena
- The Potato in Jersey
- The Industrial Uses of the Potato
- The Potato in War-Time
- The Implements of Production
- The Potato in the Realm of Art.
- Notes:
- Contains "Introduction to the Revised Impression" (pages ix-xxiii).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [620]-645) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy is "1989 reprint".
- Kislak copy has "Cambridge Paperback Library" on cover.
- Kislak copy has water stain along bottom edge.
- ISBN:
- 0521077834
- 0521316235
- OCLC:
- 11916882
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