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- Reaktion Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-854-8
EAN 9781861898548
What food is more basic, more essential and more universal than bread? Common to the diets of both rich and poor, bread is one of our oldest foods. Loaves and rolls have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs, and excavated from ovens in Pompeii that were buried when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. From the ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 136 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-857-9
EAN 9781861898579
From the smash of a bottle on the side of a new ship to the pop of a cork at a party, champagne signals celebration, fun and camaraderie. Bubbly, as we affectionately call sparkling wine, is a symbol of luxury and decadence and the preferred drink for any important toast. Champagne reveals the history of ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-868-5
EAN 9781861898685
Olives are at once a mythical food - bringing to mind scenes from Ancient Rome and the Bible - and an everyday one, given the ubiquity of olive oil in contemporary diets. In this original, succinct and engaging history Fabrizia Lanza traces the olive's roots from antiquity, when olive oil was exalted for ritual purposes ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-831-9
EAN 9781861898319
In A History of Diplomacy, historian Jeremy Black challenges the conventional account of the development of diplomacy, devoting more attention to non-Western traditions and to the medieval West than is usually the case. By the nineteenth century a system of diplomacy was increasingly formalized. Black charts the course and evolution of diplomacy' in all its ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-799-2
EAN 9781861897992
From its obscure Pre-Columbian beginnings in South America to its global popularity today, the story of the potato is one of rags to riches. In Potato, esteemed culinary historian Andrew F. Smith reveals the captivating story of a once lowly vegetable that has changed - and continues to change - the world.First domesticated by prehistoric ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 25,95 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-768-8
EAN 9781861897688
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- Reaktion Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-780-0
EAN 9781861897800
Whiskey: poets have celebrated it, preachers have condemned it, and blood has been shed over it. Governments, distillers and the public have fought over whiskey as it changed from a sometimes lethal, herb-infused concoction to a high-quality, meticulously crafted liquor. Kevin R.Kosar tells the story of whiskey, and its rise from obscure medieval origins to ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-650-6
EAN 9781861896506
Caviar: piquant, luxurious and decadent, it is renowned the world over. A story of greed, indulgence, enterprise and hope, "Caviar: A Global History" starts by looking back to its heyday in Tsarist Russia, America and Europe in the Roaring Twenties, before telling the story of production, trade and consumption today. Renowned food writer and historian ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-426-7
EAN 9781861894267
In "Spices" Fred Czarra explores a wide range of spice fact, fable and legend: from giant birds building cinnamon nests, to the trade routes of the ancient world, to the early modern encounters between the English, Portugese and Dutch that resulted in the first global war. In this history of spices he shows that the ...
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A musical composer who dabbled in the Dada movement, a Bohemian gymnopediste of fin-de-siecle Montmartre, and a legendary dresser known as The Velvet Gentleman for his sartorial choices, Erik Satie was nearly unprecedented in technique, style and philosophy among European composers in the early twentieth century. Yet his legacy has largely languished in the shadows ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,27 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-066-5
EAN 9781861890665
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