Milk : a local and global history / / Deborah Valenze.

"How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the rituals and beliefs that have governed milk prod...

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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:xv, 351 p. :; ill., ports.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The culture of milk
  • pt. 2. Feeding people
  • pt. 3. Industry, science, and medicine
  • pt. 4. Milk as modern.