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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. Embracing a wide range of authors and scientific or medical practitioners—from physicians and poets to philosophes and playwrights—E. C. Spary demonstrates how public discussions of eating and drinking were used to articulate concerns about the state of civilization versus that of nature, about the effects of consumption upon the identities of individuals and nations, and about the proper form and practice of scholarship. En route, Spary devotes extensive attention to the manufac...
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Explores the causes and significance of the political influence gained by French medical doctors between 1870-1914.
Includes supplement of additions and changes since 1964 and through Dec., 1968. 1st ed., 1951; 3d ed., 1964.