Cecilia Leong-Salobir

Food Culture in Colonial Asia (eBook, ePUB)

A Taste of Empire

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between 1858 and 1963.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136726538
• Artikelnr.: 38459934

Autorenporträt

Cecilia Leong-Salobir is Honorary Research Fellow in the History Discipline (School of Humanities) at the University of Western Australia. Her research interests are food, world history through foodways and colonial empires in Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. What Empire Builders Ate 2. The Colonial Appropriation of
Curry 3. Servants of Empire: the Role and Representation of Domestic
Servants 4. Leisure and Segregation: Clubs, Hill Stations and Resthouses 5.
Dirt and Disease 6. Conclusion