Feast: A History of Grand Eating
de Strong, Roy
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Bien
- ISBN 10
- 0151007586
- ISBN 13
- 9780151007585
- Librería
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Newport Coast, California, United States
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Sinopsis
Sharing a grand meal has always been a complex social event. Feasts have been used to celebrate significant occasions, to parade rank and hierarchy, and to flatter and influence people. There has always been a theatrical element to the feast as well-from the nude dancers who entertained dinner guests in ancient Greece to the restrained rigors of the Victorian dinner party. Sir Roy Strong examines this cultural phenomenon with knowledge, wit, and style-beginning with the ninth century B.C., when a Babylonian emperor discreetly invited seventy thousand guests for a ten-day celebration, and ending early in the twentieth century, by which time feasts had become somewhat more modest. Always attuned to how these celebrations mirror the societies that hold them and to the way they reflect shifts in power and class, this beautifully illustrated book offers a lively and illuminating history of grand eating. .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Bonita (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0151007586.G
- Título
- Feast: A History of Grand Eating
- Autor
- Strong, Roy
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0151007586
- ISBN 13
- 9780151007585
- Editorial
- Harcourt
- Lugar de publicación
- San Diego, Ca, U.s.a.
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- November 3, 2003