Decolonizing the Diet: Nutrition, Immunity, and the Warning from Early America

Author:   Gideon Mailer ,  Nicola Hale
Publisher:   Anthem Press
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9781785271588


Pages:   354
Publication Date:   13 September 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Decolonizing the Diet: Nutrition, Immunity, and the Warning from Early America


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"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."

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Author:   Gideon Mailer ,  Nicola Hale
Publisher:   Anthem Press
Imprint:   Anthem Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781785271588


ISBN 10:   178527158
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   13 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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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.

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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.

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