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1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
European studies : an interdisciplinary series in European culture, history and politics ; 22
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European studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 22.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Food, drink and identity in Europe : consumption and the construction of local, national and cosmopolitan culture / Thomas M. Wilson -- Food, phagophobia and English national identity / Menno Spiering -- From whiskey to famine : food and intercultural encounters in Irish history / Joep Leerssen -- Diet and modernization in the Netherlands during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Michael Wintle -- HItting the bar : alcohol, football identities and global flows in Norway / Gary Armstrong and Hans Hognestad -- "Social wine" : ethnic identity and wine consumption in the Basque diaspora in Barcelona (Spain) / F. Xavier Medina -- Journeys through "ingestible topography" : socializing the "situated eater" in France / Wendy L.H. Leynse -- The quest for quality : food and the notion of "trust" in the Gers area in France / Karen Montagne -- Food fights at the EU table : the gastronomic assertion of Italian distinctiveness / Erick Castellanos and Sara M. Bergstresser -- Food, national identity, and emergent Europeanness at the European Space Agency / Stacia E. Zabusky. |
| Summary |
Scholars across the humanities and social sciences are increasingly examining the importance of consumption to changing notions of local, regional, national and supranational identity in Europe. As part of this interest, anthropologists, historians, sociologists and others have paid particular attention to the roles which food and drink have played in the construction of local, regional and national identity in Europe. This volume provides the first multidisciplinary look at the contributions which food and alcohol make to contemporary European identities, including the part they play in proce. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Food -- Social aspects -- Europe.
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Food -- Social aspects. |
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Europe. |
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Cooking -- Social aspects -- Europe.
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Cooking -- Social aspects. |
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Cooking. |
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Food habits -- Social aspects -- Europe.
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Food habits -- Social aspects. |
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects -- Europe.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects. |
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages. |
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National characteristics, European.
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National characteristics, European. |
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Group identity -- Europe.
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Group identity. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wilson, Thomas M., 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Food, drink and identity in Europe. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006 9042020865 9789042020863 (OCoLC)75964804 |
| ISBN |
9781429456241 (electronic book) |
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1429456248 (electronic book) |
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9789401203494 |
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9401203490 |
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9042020865 |
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9789042020863 |
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9789042020870 |
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9042020873 |
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