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Earle, Rebecca (2018) Promoting potatoes in 18th-century Europe. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 51 (2). pp. 147-162. doi:10.1353/ecs.2017.0057
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2017.0057
Abstract
Eating acquired an unprecedented political resonance during the eighteenth century. This article uses the promotion of the potato as an Enlightenment super-food to trace the emergence of new models of political economy and governance, which stressed the importance of a healthy, well-nourished population to the strength and wealth of the state. Integrating the slower history of the potato's conquest of European dietaries with its frenetic promotion in the late eighteenth century illuminates the central role that everyday eating practices came to play in Enlightened models of statecraft.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | S Agriculture > SB Plant culture | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Potatoes -- History -- Europe -- 18th century, Potatoes -- Nutritional aspects -- History | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Eighteenth-Century Studies | ||||||||
| Publisher: | The Johns Hopkins University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0013-2586 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 51 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 147-162 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1353/ecs.2017.0057 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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