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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gideon Mailer , Nicola HalePublisher: Anthem Press Imprint: Anthem Press Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781785271588ISBN 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 We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; 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.ReviewsYes! Magazine Duluth News -- Author Article Yes! Magazine Author InformationGideon 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |