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ISBN10: 0759120757, ISBN13: 9780759120754, [publisher: AltaMira Press] Hardcover Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. [Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]
Hardback. New. Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam explores how people in Vietnam used food and drink to strengthen their social position during the long nineteenth century, from the 1790s to the 1920s. ISBN 0759120757 9780759120754 [GB]
ISBN10: 0759120757, ISBN13: 9780759120754, [publisher: AltaMira Press,U.S., California] Hardcover Hardcover. In Vietnam during the long nineteenth century from the Tay Son rebellion to the 1920s, individuals negotiated changing interpretations of their culinary choices by their families, neighbors, and governments. What people ate reflected not just who they were, but also who they wanted to be. Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam starts with the spread of Vietnamese imperial control from south to north, marking the earliest efforts to create a common Vietnamese culture, as well as resistance to that cultural and culinary imperialism. Once the French conquered the country, new opportunities for culinary experimentation became possible, although such experiences were embraced more by the colonized than the colonizers. This book discusses how colonialism changed the taste of Vietnamese fish sauce and rice liquor and shows that state intervention made those products into tangible icons of a unified Vietnamese cuisine, under attack by the French. Vietnamese villagers began to see the power they could bring to bear on the state by mobilizing around such controversies in everyday life. The rising new urban classes at the turn of the twentieth century also discovered new perspectives on food and drink, delighting in unfamiliar snacks or giving elaborate multicultural banquets as a form of conspicuous consumption. New tastes prompted people to reconsider their preferences an ...
Lanham, MD Altamira Press 2011 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 271 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy.
ISBN10: 0759120757, ISBN13: 9780759120754, [publisher: AltaMira Press] Hardcover New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed [Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]
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