Author: David Gentilcore File Type: pdf Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is both a history of food practices and a history of the medical discourse about that food. It is also an exploration of the interaction between the two the relationship between evolving foodways and shifting medical advice on what to eat in order to stay healthy. It provides the first in-depth study of printed dietary advice covering the entire early modern period, from the late-15th century to the early-19th it is also the first to trace the history of European foodways as seen through the prism of this advice. David Gentilcore offers a doctors-eye view of changing food and dietary fashions from Portugal to Poland, from Scotland to Sicily, not forgetting the expanding European populations of the New World. In addition to exploring European regimens throughout the period, works of materia medica, botany, agronomy and horticulture are considered, as well as a range of other printed sources, such as travel accounts, cookery books and literary works. The book also includes 30 illustrations, maps and extensive chapter bibliographies with web links included to further aid study. Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is the essential introduction to the relationship between food, health and medicine for history students and scholars alike. **Review Social history done well (unequivocally the case here) is a pleasure to read. Views of food, medicine, and societal practice confected in the cauldron of Europes early modern period could easily, in less scholarly and competent hands, have produced a concoction intellectually difficult to digest. The authors recipe for avoiding this is simple but skillfully executed. Two initial chapters divide the period surveyed (c.1450c.1650 c.1650c.1800) to clarify the shifting views of diet and medicine. In brief, the revival of Galens emphasis on dietary regimen and prevention (renascent as a result of humanism) is eventually challenged by iatrochemical (Paracelsian) and iatromechanical views emphasizing therapeutics and curative drugs. These views are, by the end of this diachronic survey, countered by a return to a dietetics again based on hygiene and prevention. With this foundation established, subsequent chapters explore the interaction of these ideas with changing views of social rank, religion, vegetarianism, beverage consumption, and the appearance of new foods and drinks associated with the Columbian exchange. It would be difficult to imagine any undergraduate student, irrespective of major, who could leave unsated from this intellectual feast. Summing Up Essential. All levelslibraries. -CHOICE An excellent book! Well-written, it has a logical structure and strong arguments. Its particular strengths are the European perspective, the careful analysis of discourses, the many and telling quotations, and the systematic attention to regional and social differences. This book is an eminent and original contribution to food historiography. Peter Scholliers, Professor of History and FOST (Social & Cultural Food Studies), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium David Gentilcore had the happy idea of combining two topics that are usually studied separately, the history of medicine and the history of food. Basing his work on the rich literature of advice on a healthy diet, Gentilcore compares the food anxieties of early modern times with our own but contrasts the recommendations, noting the rejection of fish, fruit and vegetables as dangerously cold and moist. The result is a valuable contribution to both the intellectual and the social history of early modern Europe. Peter Burke, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge, UK The current proliferation of dietary advice makes David Gentilcores witty and learned book especially welcome. He reminds us that we moderns have no monopoly on the application of diet to health doctors and patients have agreed and disagreed about what to eat (and drink) for generations. But notions of what constituted health, and what foods promoted it, have changed drastically, with regional and religious factors also playing roles. With his deep understanding of both food and medicine, Gentilcore is the ideal guide through an era when too much fruit might kill you, and even children drank alcohol every day. Anita Guerrini, Professor of History, Oregon State University, USA Advice about food and drink has always been fundamental to medicine, but European tastes rapidly changed in response to the development of global trade and new ideas. Gentilcore captures those transformations wonderfully in this wide-ranging book, highlighting not only the novelties and curiosities but the enduring legacies of food culture in a period that fundamentally shaped European stomachs, palates, and health. Harold J. Cook, John F. Nickoll Professor of History, Brown University, USA About the Author David Gentilcore is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of Italy and the Potato A History, 1550-2000 (2012), Pomodoro! A History of the Tomato in Italy (2010) and Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy (2006).

Author: Rob van Kranenburg File Type: pdf Cities across the world are about to enter the next phase of their development. A near invisible network of radio frequency identification tags (RFID) is being deployed on almost every type of consumer item. These tiny, traceable chips, which can be scanned wirelessly, are being produced in their billions and are capable of being connected to the internet in an instant. This so-called ambient intelligence promises to create a global network of physical objects every bit as pervasive and ubiquitous as the worldwide web itself. Some are already calling this controversial network the internet of things. Van Kranenburg examines what impact RFID, and other systems, will have on our cities and our wider society while also ruminating on what alternativespan hidden network technologies could help safeguard our privacy and empower citizens to take power back into their own hands. Its both a timely warning and a call to arms.span Cities across the world are about to enter the next phase of their development. A near invisible network of radio frequency identification tags (RFID) is being deployed on almost every type of consumer item. These tiny, traceable chips, which can be scanned wirelessly, are being produced in their billions and are capable of being connected to the internet in an instant. This so-called Ambient intelligence promises to create a global network of physical objects every bit as pervasive and ubiquitous as the worldwide web itself. Some are already calling this controversial network the internet of things describing it as either the ultimate convenience in supply-chain management, or the ultimate tool in our future surveillance. This network has the power to reshape our cities and yet it is being built with little public knowledge of consent.Here Rob van Kranenburg examines what impact RFID, and other systems, will have on our cities and our wider society while also ruminating on what alternative network technologies could help safeguard our privacy and empower citizens to take power back into their own hands. It is both a timely warning and a call to arms.

Author: Frank Martinus Arion File Type: epub Vier mannen spelen domino. Een eindeloos lijkende warme middag lang. Onder de tamarindeboom naast het krot van taxichauffeur Boeboe Fiel, vanwaar je het mooie nieuwe huis van de gerechtsdeurwaarder Manchi Sanantonio kunt zien liggen. De twee andere spelers zijn Chamon Nicolas, een huisjesmelker, en Juanchi Pau, de idealist van het gezelschap. De mannen zijn dat zo gewoon, maar die zondag ontwikkelt hun spel zich catastrofaal. Uit de achtergronden van de dominospelers komt een beeld van het leven op Curacao te voorschijn. Twee deelnemers zijn getrouwd, maar de andere twee blijken een geheime relatie met de vrouwen van hun tengenstanders te hebben. De roman laat veel zien over de identiteit van Curacao en zijn bewoners, de tradities en de moraal. Een roman die je op verschillende niveaus kunt lezen een spannend en meeslepend verhaal van vriendschap en verraad, een politieke allegorie, alsook een sfeervol tijdsbeeld van de Nederlandse Antillen in de jaren zeventig. Dubbelspel werd in 2006 uitgekozen voor de nationale lezersactie Nederland leest.Recencie(s) NBD|Biblion recensie Vier negers spelen hun zondagse spelletje domino Manchi, de dagdromende, waanwijze deurwaarder, en Boeboe, de vriendelijke maar trouweloze taxichauffeur, tegen Janchi, de werker bij de Shell, en Chamon, de voorzichtige huizenbezittende bovenwinder van Saba, op Curacao geimporteerd. Langzaam aan blijkt dat het leven van de vier mannen met de stenen wordt uitgespeeld en aan het eind van het spel wordt de ene verliezer door een van de winnaars gedood, de andere verliezer pleegt zelfmoord. Als enige winnaar komt Janchi, half Boliviaan, uit de strijd en domineert dus. Symbolisch? Een beklemmend boek, maar ook vol humor de taal staat duidelijk onder Engelse invloed. Bekendste roman van de Antilliaanse schrijver (1936). Paperback normale druk.br(Biblion recensie, Redactie) (source Bol.com)

Author: William Manchester File Type: epub Inspiring, outrageous... A thundering paradox of a man. Douglas MacArthur, one of only five men in history to have achieved the rank of General of the United States Army. He served in World Wars I, II, and the Korean War, and is famous for stating that in war, there is no substitute for victory. AMERICAN CAESAR exaines the exemplary army career, the stunning successes (and lapses) on the battlefield, and the turbulent private life of the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a uniquely American legend. **ReviewGracefully written, impeccably researched and scrupulous in every way - a thrilling and profoundly ponderable piece of work. -- NewsweekA through and spellbinding book...a dramatic chronicle of one of Americas last epic heroes. -- Saturday Review A blockbuster of a book...It reads like a novel, but all of it is based firmly on the complex but fascinating record. -- New York Magazine