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Author Salaman, Redcliffe N. (Redcliffe Nathan), 1874-1955.

Title The history and social influence of the potato / Redcliffe N. Salaman ; with a chapter on industrial uses by W.G. Burton
Edition Revised impression / edited by J.G. Hawkes
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1985

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Description xliv, 685 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge paperback library
Cambridge paperback library.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction to the revised impression -- Preface -- Illustrations -- 1. Immigrant man and the Andean potato -- 2. The archaeological record -- 3. The potato in pre-Spanish Peru -- 4. The Inca period -- 5. The potatoes of America and their relation to the early European varieties -- 6. Early descriptions of the potato in Europe -- 7. 'Vertues', vices and values -- 8. Names and aliases -- 9. The introduction to Europe: the Raleigh and other legends -- 10. Potato varieties: past, present and future -- 11. The potato in Ireland in the sixteenth century -- 12. The potato in Ireland in the seventeenth century -- 13. The potato in Ireland in the eighteenth century -- 14. The period of Irish self-government -- 15. Ireland in the nineteenth century -- 16. The potato famine: its causes and consequences -- 17. The potato in post-famine Ireland -- 18. The potato's part in the tragedy of Ireland -- 19. The potato in Scotland -- 20. The potato in the highlands of Scotland -- 21 The potato in the lowlands of Scotland -- 22. The potato in Wales -- 23. The potato of Shakespeare and the Jacobeans -- 24. The seventeenth century: the first hundred years of the potato's progress in Great Britain -- 25. The eighteenth century -- 26. The nineteenth century and after -- 27. The relation between potato and bread consumption -- 28. The potato in Tristan de Cunha -- 29. The potato in St Helena -- 30. The potato in Jersey -- 31. The industrial uses of the potato -- 32. The potato in war-time -- 33. The implements of production -- 34. The potato in the realm of art -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- Note
Analysis Potatoes Social aspects history
Potatoes Social aspects, to 1980
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [619]-645
Subject Potatoes -- History.
Potatoes -- Social aspects.
Solanum tuberosum -- history.
Solanum tuberosum.
Author Burton, W. G. (William Glynn)
Hawkes, J. G. (John Gregory), 1915-2007.
LC no. 85006691
ISBN 0521077834
0521316235 (paperback)