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Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760
E. C. Spary
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Paperback. Offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. Num Pages: 378 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. Embracing a wide range of authors and scientific or medical practitioners - from physicians and poets to philosophies and playwrights - E. C. Spary demonstrates how public discussions of eating and drinking were used to articulate concerns about the state of civilization versus that of nature, about the effects of consumption on the identitics of individuals and nations, and about the proper form ... Read more
Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. Embracing a wide range of authors and scientific or medical practitioners - from physicians and poets to philosophies and playwrights - E. C. Spary demonstrates how public discussions of eating and drinking were used to articulate concerns about the state of civilization versus that of nature, about the effects of consumption on the identitics of individuals and nations, and about the proper form ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
378
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226214467
SKU
V9780226214467
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About E. C. Spary
E. C. Spary is a lecturer in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Utopia's Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution and coeditor of Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760
"Spary's materials offer new possibilities for seeing the Enlightenment as a contest over practical virtue, over the texture of quotidian life. How should you live? What should you eat? What's for dinner?" (Los Angeles Review of Books)"