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Index
Title page
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION
LINE-CUT ILLUSTRATIONS
PROLOGUE
BOOK ONE-The Bread of Prehistoric Man
THE RIDDLE OF THE ANTS
THE INVENTION OF THE PLOW
THE RIVALRY OF THE GRASSES
BOOK TWO-Bread in the Ancient World
EGYPT: THE DISCOVERY OF BAKING
ISRAEL: IN THE SWEAT OF THY FACE
GREECE: THE PASSION OF THE SEED CORN
GREECE: THE BREAD CHURCH OF ELEUSIS
ROME: BREAD IN POLITICS
ROME: THE BREAD GOD, JESUS CHRIST
BOOK THREE-Bread in the Middle Ages
NEW PEOPLES ON OLD SOIL
MONKS, DEMONS, PEASANTS
THE MILLER WAS AN EVIL MAN
AND THE BAKER STARVED US
THE CENTURIES OF HUNGER
THE MAN WITH THE HOE
THE BLEEDING BREAD
LE PAIN SE LÈVE-THE PEASANT REBELS
THE FIGHT OVER THE LORD’S SUPPER
BOOK FOUR-Bread in the Early Americas
MAIZE-THE GREAT WAYFARER
THE DAY OF THE POTATO
BETWEEN SQUANTO AND OLIVER EVANS
BOOK FIVE-Bread in the Nineteenth Century
CAN SCIENCE PREVENT A REVOLUTION?
BREAD: ACTOR IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
BREAD IN NAPOLEON’S DEFEAT
LINCOLN: BREAD WAS GREATER THAN COTTON
McCORMICK: THE MACHINE THAT CONQUERS-THE FIELDS
LIEBIG: EARTH WAS IN NEED OF A HEALER
CHALLENGE TO MALTHUS
AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF WHEAT
BOOK SIX-Bread in Our Time
HOW BREAD HELPED WIN WORLD WAR I
RUSSIA’S BREAD-1917
HOW BOTANISTS CHANGED THE MAP
FARMERS’ SALVATION
DEMETER WARNS HER PEOPLE AGAIN
BREAD, HEALTH, BUSINESS, AND THE SOUL OF MAN
HITLER’S “PACTE DE FAMINE”
POSTSCRIPT AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER
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