Murdering Jewish Children

When historical geographer Sam B. Hilliard's book Hog Meat and Hoecake was published in 1972, it was ahead of its time. It was one of the first scholarly examinations of the important role food played in a region's history, culture, and politics, and it has since become a landmark of foodways scholarship. In the book Hilliard examines the food supply, dietary habits, and agricultural choices of the antebellum American South, including Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. He explores the major southern food sources at the time, the regional production of commodity crops, and the role of those products in the subsistence economy. Far from being primarily a plantation system concentrating on cash crops such as cotton and tobacco, Hilliard demonstrates that the South produced huge amounts of foodstuffs for regional consumption. In fact, the South produced so abundantly that, except for wines and cordials, southern tables were not only stocked with the essentials but amply laden with veritable delicacies as well. (Though contrary to popular opinion, neither grits nor hominy ever came close to being universally used in the South prior to the Civil War.) Hilliard's focus on food habits, culture, and consumption was revolutionary - as was his discovery that malnutrition was not a major cause of the South's defeat in the Civil War. His book established the methods and vocabulary for studying a region's cuisine in the context of its culture that foodways scholars still employ today. This reissue is an excellent and timely reminder of that.

Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860

RICE (ORYZA SATIVA) HAS SHAPED THE LIVES OF RELATIVELY FEW WESTERNERS over time. It has dominated the lives of fewer still. While the cereal has been known in the West since antiquity, its production and consumption for the most part have been of only minor importance, occurring at the margin of Western foodways. That we speak of breadwinners rather than ricewinners and pray for our daily bread rather than our daily rice tells us something about the hold of breadprimarily wheat bread-on the Western world. In the East, where the rice plant originated, things are far different; with all due respect to James Henry Hammond, in that part of the world, rice is indeed king. That the Indian word for rice, dhanya, means "sustainer of the human race," that the name of the Buddha's father, Suddhodana, the sixth-century-B.c. king of Nepal, literally means "pure rice," and that the idiomatic expression "Have you eaten your rice today?" was a polite way of saying hello in traditional Chinese society only begins to convey the place of rice in the East.2

Distant thunder: The creation of a world market in rice and the transformations it wrought

Acknowledgements. Preface to the Second Edition. Introduction. Chronology of Main Events. Maps. Part I: A View from London:. 1. Consuming Passions. 2. Murdering Men. Part II: Traumas:. 3. Slaves, Traders and Africa. 4. Crossing the Atlantic. 5. Landfall. Part III: Working Lives:. 6. Plantations, Slaves and Planters. 7. In the Fields. 8. Skills. 9. Women. 10. Disease and Death. Part IV: Resting:. 11. Slaves at Ease. 12. Religion. 13. Families and Communities. 14. Sex in the Slave Quarters. Part V: Fighting Back:. 15. Violence. 16. Rebellions. 17. A Leap in the Dark: Runaways. Part VI: Consequences:. 18. Ending It All: The Crusade Against Slavery. 19. The Plight of Africa. 20. The Problems of Freedom. Bibliographical Note. References. Index.

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Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860

Distant thunder: The creation of a world market in rice and the transformations it wrought

Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire

The Colonial Records Of North Carolina.

The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution.

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