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Breakfast
From corn flakes to pancakes, Breakfast: A History explores this “most important meal of the day” as a social and gastronomic phenomenon. It explains how and why the meal emerged, what is eaten commonly in this meal across the globe, why certain foods are considered indispensable, and how it has been depicted in art and media. Heather Arndt Anderson’s detail-rich, culturally revealing, and entertaining narrative thoroughly satisfies.
Domesticating Electricity
This is an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. Gooday shows how technology, authority and gender interacted in pre-World War I Britain. The rapid take-up of electrical light and domestic appliances on both sides of the Atlantic had a wide-ranging effect on consumer habits and the division of labour within the home. Electricity was viewed by non-experts as potential threat to domestic order and welfare. This broadly interdisciplinary study relates to a website developed by the author on the history of electricity.
Bill Lancaster: The Final Verdict
Captain William Lancaster was the subject of public attention and controversy during his life as a record-breaking flyer, because of his love affair with Jessie Chubbie Miller (dubbed the Australian Aviatrix) and as the defendant in one of the most sensational murder trials of the twentieth century. His disappearance, which occurred during an attempt to break the London to Cape Town record in 1933, less than a year after his acquittal, led to speculation that his ill-prepared last flight had been driven by desperation, perhaps even guilt.Twenty nine years later, a French military patrol in the Sahara stumbled across the wreck of Bills plane and his body, along with his perfectly preserved lo...
아침식사의 문화사 Breakfast
하루 중 가장 중요한 끼니인 아침식사는 언제부터 하기 시작했을까? 어디서 무엇을 어떻게 먹었던 것일까? 아침식사를 하는 것이 좋은 것일까, 해로운 것일까? 인류의 역사가 시작된 이래 특히 농경이 발달하고 돌을 이용해 곡물을 가루로 만들기 시작한 신석기 시대부터 시리얼이나 달걀 요리가 중심을 이루는 오늘날까지 아침식사는 인류의 역사와 함께 해왔다. 하지만 아침식사에 대한 인류의 태도는 많은 변화가 있었다. 그중 아침식사에 가장 중요한 영향을 미친 ‘네 가지 요소’는 바로, ‘종교’, ‘무역’, ‘기술’, ‘...
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