Gideon Mailer, Nicola Hale

Decolonizing the Diet

Nutrition, Immunity, and the Warning from Early America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Synthesizing the science of nutrition, immunity and evolutionary genetics with a controversial new history of indigenous North America, "Decolonizing the Diet" shows how populations fail to recover from epidemics when their ability to hunt, gather and farm nutritionally dense plants and animals is diminished by war, colonization and cultural destruction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 727g
• ISBN-13: 9781783087143
• ISBN-10: 1783087145
• Artikelnr.: 48386886

Autorenporträt

Gideon A. Mailer is associate professor in early American history at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA. Nicola E. Hale, specializing in genetics, cell biology and biochemistry, has worked in assistant scientist positions at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Nutrition and Immunity in Native America: A Historical and Biological Controversy
Chapter 1:The Evolution of Nutrition and Immunity: From the Paleolithic Era to the Medieval European Black Death
Chapter 2: More Than Maize: Native American Subsistence Strategies from the Bering Migration to the Eve of Contact
Chapter 3: Micronutrients and Immunity in Native America, 1492- 1750
Chapter 4: Metabolic Health and Immunity in Native America, 1750- 1950
Epilogue: Decolonizing the Diet: Food Sovereignty and Biodiversity
Notes
Index.