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The Taste of Empire

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Lizzie Collingham
Basic Books
2017-10-3
368
USD 30.00
Hardcover
9780465056668

图书标签: 社会史  食物研究  食物  贸易  英國  英国  经济史  殖民   


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A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the world

In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans became the best-fed people in the world. In The Taste of Empire, Collingham masterfully shows that only by examining the history of Great Britain's global food system, from sixteenth-century Newfoundland fisheries to our present-day eating habits, can we fully understand our capitalist economy and its role in making our modern diets.

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"Lizzie Collingham's fascinating new book...demonstrates that a cup of tea is never just a cup of tea-it is a history of trade, exchange, land-grab, agricultural innovation and economic change...Marvelously wide-ranging and readable."

-Financial Times (UK)

"[Collingham] is exploring largely virgin territory. For centuries historical studies focused on political and social narratives. Until recently economics did not receive anything like its proper attention. Collingham seeks to redress the...omission...A wholly pleasing book."

-Sunday Times (UK)

"Revelatory...Collingham's book ranges widely to show how 'Britain's quest for food shaped the modern world.' An original and thought-provoking book and for all the shocking accounts of the consequences of British appetites, a highly entertaining one."

-The Times (UK)

"This is a wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire."

--Max Hastings, Sunday Times (UK)

"An original and thought-provoking book and for all the shocking accounts of the consequences of British appetites, a highly entertaining one."

--The Times (UK)

"Lizzie Collingham's fascinating new book, The Taste of Empire, demonstrates that a cup of tea is never just a cup of tea--it is a history of trade, exchange, land-grab, agricultural innovation and economic change.... This is a marvelously wide-ranging and readable book, stuffed with engaging details and startling connections."

--Financial Times

"This ingeniously constructed history shows that what we think of as personal appetites have largely been constructed by the machinations of empire. The Taste of Empire uses vivid snapshots of meals to tell the story of how Britain's quest for food drove its imperial ambitions. Collingham takes the reader on a powerful journey ranging from the sugary tea of Great Britain to the rum punch of Boston. Like Sidney Mintz or Margaret Visser, Collingham is a historian whose writing about food informs larger stories about human existence: about conflict and culture, about economics and politics. I was dazzled by Collingham's writing and her book also left me very hungry."

--Bee Wilson, author of First Bite

"The Taste of Empire has a hidden history: the menu, and how it changed the world. Lizzie Collingham has uncovered an epic that runs from domestic comedy to horror to the startling shifts that brought rice to America, maize to Africa, and tea to India. She makes it absorbing and utterly readable, mixing the huge economic story with exact and fascinating glimpses into past lives. You'll never see a biscuit tin the same way once you know how they were used in the Zulu Wars."--Michael Pye, author of The Edge of the World

"Beyond gold and glory, an insatiable lust for foreign foods drove the juggernaut of British imperialism. So shows Lizzie Collingham in this rich economic history, drawing on annals military, mercantile and domestic to reveal the complex routes along with the fruits of the colonial fields and fisheries were shunted into Britain's dining rooms."

--Nature

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著者简介

Lizzie Collingham is an associate fellow at the University of Warwick. The author of three books, including The Taste of War and Curry, Collingham lives in Cambridge, United Kingdom.


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帝国的食物史。把食物作为切入英帝国历史的角度,从具体的食材或者菜肴牵扯出帝国扩张的大趋势和帝国对殖民者和被殖民者口味的塑造。有很多好玩的细节,可以解释很多之前的疑问。有一个观点很有意思,英国工人阶级喝茶并不是为了喝茶,而是为了喝糖获取廉价的热量,很多时候茶叶就是给糖水染个色...另外也好奇中文版是怎么处理鸦片战争那一节的,按作者在书里的说法,鸦片贩子卖完鸦片之后都去广州东印度公司洋行里把白银换成汇票,方便在伦敦体现或者在印度继续贸易,这些白银又被用来购买中国茶和丝,所以鸦片贸易虽然在账目上扭转了东印度公司对华贸易逆差,但是实际上没有造成白银的大规模外流。

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帝国的食物史。把食物作为切入英帝国历史的角度,从具体的食材或者菜肴牵扯出帝国扩张的大趋势和帝国对殖民者和被殖民者口味的塑造。有很多好玩的细节,可以解释很多之前的疑问。有一个观点很有意思,英国工人阶级喝茶并不是为了喝茶,而是为了喝糖获取廉价的热量,很多时候茶叶就是给糖水染个色...另外也好奇中文版是怎么处理鸦片战争那一节的,按作者在书里的说法,鸦片贩子卖完鸦片之后都去广州东印度公司洋行里把白银换成汇票,方便在伦敦体现或者在印度继续贸易,这些白银又被用来购买中国茶和丝,所以鸦片贸易虽然在账目上扭转了东印度公司对华贸易逆差,但是实际上没有造成白银的大规模外流。

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帝国的食物史。把食物作为切入英帝国历史的角度,从具体的食材或者菜肴牵扯出帝国扩张的大趋势和帝国对殖民者和被殖民者口味的塑造。有很多好玩的细节,可以解释很多之前的疑问。有一个观点很有意思,英国工人阶级喝茶并不是为了喝茶,而是为了喝糖获取廉价的热量,很多时候茶叶就是给糖水染个色...另外也好奇中文版是怎么处理鸦片战争那一节的,按作者在书里的说法,鸦片贩子卖完鸦片之后都去广州东印度公司洋行里把白银换成汇票,方便在伦敦体现或者在印度继续贸易,这些白银又被用来购买中国茶和丝,所以鸦片贸易虽然在账目上扭转了东印度公司对华贸易逆差,但是实际上没有造成白银的大规模外流。

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帝国的食物史。把食物作为切入英帝国历史的角度,从具体的食材或者菜肴牵扯出帝国扩张的大趋势和帝国对殖民者和被殖民者口味的塑造。有很多好玩的细节,可以解释很多之前的疑问。有一个观点很有意思,英国工人阶级喝茶并不是为了喝茶,而是为了喝糖获取廉价的热量,很多时候茶叶就是给糖水染个色...另外也好奇中文版是怎么处理鸦片战争那一节的,按作者在书里的说法,鸦片贩子卖完鸦片之后都去广州东印度公司洋行里把白银换成汇票,方便在伦敦体现或者在印度继续贸易,这些白银又被用来购买中国茶和丝,所以鸦片贸易虽然在账目上扭转了东印度公司对华贸易逆差,但是实际上没有造成白银的大规模外流。

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帝国的食物史。把食物作为切入英帝国历史的角度,从具体的食材或者菜肴牵扯出帝国扩张的大趋势和帝国对殖民者和被殖民者口味的塑造。有很多好玩的细节,可以解释很多之前的疑问。有一个观点很有意思,英国工人阶级喝茶并不是为了喝茶,而是为了喝糖获取廉价的热量,很多时候茶叶就是给糖水染个色...另外也好奇中文版是怎么处理鸦片战争那一节的,按作者在书里的说法,鸦片贩子卖完鸦片之后都去广州东印度公司洋行里把白银换成汇票,方便在伦敦体现或者在印度继续贸易,这些白银又被用来购买中国茶和丝,所以鸦片贸易虽然在账目上扭转了东印度公司对华贸易逆差,但是实际上没有造成白银的大规模外流。

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无论是上学还是现在工作,匆忙的行程中经常会购买几块面包解决饥饱问题,但是从来没有意识到平凡的面包还能揭示的复杂的社会。 由于十九世纪的初期的英国工人被贪婪的资本家盘剥严重,所获得的微薄工资不足以购买足够的煤炭来炖菜,因此主要通过购买面包来解决日常的饮食诉求。...  

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《饥饿帝国》向我们展示了食物强大的经济力量和政治力量。通过食物我们能看到整个历史变迁。人对食物态度的转变,也恰恰是文化的转变。举两个接地气的例子。 我吃面包牛奶长大,大学期间早餐更是随意,早已习惯了沙琪玛配速溶咖啡,但这在我丈母娘看来简直不可思议,用她的话说...  

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如果大家读过麦克法兰的《现代世界的诞生》,就能理解《饥饿帝国》的一个基本语境。麦克法兰那本书的中心思想是,现代世界是由英国,确切的说是英格兰通过近代一系列事件塑造的。而《饥饿帝国》的中心思想就是其中的一个维度:英国人/英国产业对食物的需求塑造了现代世界。 显...  

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