The essays in this 1985 volume direct attention to important
questions on the relationship between food and history. Throughout
human history, man has had to adapt and sustain himself by varying
or expanding the basic kinds or forms of his nutritional staples,
by migration, or by employing remarkable ingenuities to alter his
environment. But we have as yet only a rudimentary understanding of
nutrition and malnutrition in the past. The authors of these essays
show how much of the past can be better understood if the
distinctions which are obvious to clinicians and nutritionists are
assimilated by historians. Likewise, this volume challenges
assumptions about the mechanisms of population growth and decline,
as well as theories of how populations react or adapt to
constraints on their resources.
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