Political Gastronomy : : Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World / / Michael A. LaCombe.
"The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions, to submit to certain influences: from this is born political gastronomy. Meals have become a means of governing, and the fate of whole peoples is...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 18 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. "Commutative Goodnesse": Food and Leadership
- Chapter 2. "Art of Authority": Hunger, Plenty, and the Common Stores
- Chapter 3. "By Shewing Power Purchasing Authoritie": Gender, Status, and Food Exchanges
- Chapter 4. "Would Rather Want Then Borrow, or Starve Then Not Pay": Refiguring English Dependency
- Chapter 5. "A Continuall and Dayly Table for Gentlemen of Fashion": Eating Like a Governor
- Chapter 6. "To Manifest the Greater State": English and Indians at Table
- Conclusion: "When Flesh Was Food": Reimagining the Early Period after 1660
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments