Food matters, not only as a subject of study in its own right, but
also as a medium for conveying critical messages about capitalism,
the environment, and social inequality to diverse audiences. Recent
scholarship on the subject draws from both a pathbreaking body of
secondary literature and an inexhaustible wealth of primary
sources-from ancient Chinese philosophical tracts to McDonald's
menus-contributing new perspectives to the historical study of
food, culture, and society, and challenging the limits of history
itself. The Oxford Handbook of Food History places existing works
in historiographical context, crossing disciplinary, chronological,
and geographic boundaries while also suggesting new routes for
future research. The twenty-seven essays in this book are organized
into five sections: historiography, disciplinary approaches,
production, circulation, and consumption of food. The first two
sections examine the foundations of food history, not only in
relation to key developments in the discipline of history
itself-such as the French Annales school and the cultural turn-but
also in anthropology, sociology, geography, pedagogy, and the
emerging Critical Nutrition Studies. The following three sections
sketch various trajectories of food as it travels from farm to
table, factory to eatery, nature to society. Each section balances
material, cultural, and intellectual concerns, whether juxtaposing
questions of agriculture and the environment with the notion of
cookbooks as historical documents; early human migrations with
modern culinary tourism; or religious customs with social activism.
In its vast, interdisciplinary scope, this handbook brings students
and scholars an authoritative guide to a field with fresh insights
into one of the most fundamental human concerns.
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