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Royal Taste: Food, Power and Status at the European Courts after 1789

Royal Taste: Food, Power and Status at the European Courts after 1789

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral European History

ISBN10: 0754668371
ISBN13: 9780754668374
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 20 2011
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book addresses the relationship between food consumption, status and power at the royal courts of Europe in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The volume addresses issues of social networks, prestige, politics and diplomacy, banquets and their design, income and spending, economic aims, taste and preference, cultural innovations, social hierarchies, material culture, and many more social and cultural issues. It will provide a useful entry into food history for scholars of court culture and anyone with an interest in modern cultural history.

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