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This monumental, two-volume work encapsulates much of what is known of the history of food and nutrition throughout the span of human life on Earth. The featured essays are the work of 220 experts in 15 countries in fields from agronomy to zoology.

A dictionary giving a history and description of the world's major diseases.

Beginning with the days of hunter-gatherers and extending to the present world of genetically modified chickens, Kenneth F. Kiple details the far-reaching adventure of food. Combining fascinating facts with historical evidence, this book is a sweeping narrative of food's place in the world.

This book, based largely on the Cambridge World History of Food, provides a look at the globalization of food from the days of the hunter-gatherers to present-day genetically modified plants and animals. The establishment of agriculture and the domestication of animals in Eurasia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas are all treated in some detail along with the subsequent diffusion of farming cultures through the activities of monks, mission...

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The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (CWHHD) was first published by Cambridge in 1993. The last section of the work comprises a history and description of the world's major diseases of yesterday and today in chapters organized alphabetically from "Acquired Immune Deficient Syndrome (AIDS)" to "Yellow Fever.

A study of black disease immunities and susceptibilities and their impact on slavery and racism.

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