Milk : a local and global history

"How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the rituals and beliefs that have governed milk prod...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Valenze, Deborah M., 1953- (Author)
Corporate Author EBSCO Publishing (firma)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2011]
Subjects
mléko
mléko > dějiny
mléčné výrobky > dějiny
mléko > sociální aspekty
milk
milk > history
dairy products > history
milk > social aspects
monografie
elektronické knihy
monographs
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780300175394
Physical Description1 online zdroj : ilustrace

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Table of Contents:
  • The culture of milk. Great mothers and cows of plenty
  • Virtuous white liquor in the Middle Ages
  • The Renaissance of milk
  • Feeding people. Cash cows and Dutch diligence
  • A taste for milk and how it grew
  • Milk comes of age as cheese
  • An interlude of livestock history
  • Industry, science, and medicine. Milk in the nursery, chemistry in the kitchen
  • Beneficial bovines and the business of milk
  • Milk in an age of indigestion
  • Milk gone bad
  • Milk as modern. The ABC's of milk
  • Good for everybody in the twentieth century
  • Milk today

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