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the potato how the humble spud rescued the western world
the potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable once regarded as trash food had as revolutionary an impact on western history as the railroad or the automobile . using ireland england france and the united states as examples larry zuckerman shows how daily life from the 1770s until world war i would have been unrecognizable perhaps impossible without the potato which functioned as fast food famine insurance fuel and labor saver budget stretcher and bank loan as well as delicacy . drawing on personal diaries contemporaneous newspaper accounts and other primary sources this is popular social history at its liveliest and most illuminating . br
explains the pivotal role that potatoes have played in western history from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries