Tables of Power
Feasts Famine and Social Order
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Beschreibung
At a crowded table, a shared meal could create belonging while quietly displaying who had the power to provide it.
Food could proclaim abundance, bind a household, reward loyalty, or reveal dependence. Moving from communal meals and elite banquets to rationing, markets, and hunger, this book explores the political and social life of eating. It treats cuisine as evidence of trade and exchange, but also of the unequal control over land, labor, and survival. Readers see civilization from the table upward.
Autor*in
Dahlia Ives
An archivist who uncovered trade secrets from dusty records, weaving self-help on adaptive thinking, business lessons from ancient commerce, and detailed histories of global trade evolutions.
Themen in »Tables of Power«
history of food and power feasts and famine history ancient food culture food inequality historical meals and social class trade and culinary history