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Potato : a history of the propitious esculent
Reader, John.
Adult Nonfiction SB211.P8 R43 2009
| Contents | Page |
|---|
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
| List of Plates | p. xv |
| Part 1 - South America | p. 1 |
| 1 - To Mars from the Andes | p. 3 |
| 2 - What exactly is a potato? | p. 21 |
| 3 - Domestication | p. 29 |
| 4 - Whence have they come? | p. 39 |
| 5 - A dainty dish | p. 61 |
| Part 2 - Europe | p. 75 |
| 6 - The lonely impulse of delight | p. 77 |
| 7 - The way it was | p. 93 |
| 8 - The demoralising esculent | p. 111 |
| 9 - Where the praties grow | p. 131 |
| 10 - Seeds of famine | p. 153 |
| 11 - Woe the sons of Adam! | p. 169 |
| Part 3 - The World | p. 189 |
| 12 - The fatal malady | p. 191 |
| 13 - Co-opting science | p. 213 |
| 14 - Men on a mission | p. 231 |
| 15 - Global voyage | p. 241 |
| 16 - Developing worlds | p. 253 |
| 17 - For the price of apples | p. 265 |
| Notes | p. 279 |
| Bibliography | p. 293 |
| Index | p. 307 |
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