Decolonizing the Diet - Nutrition, Immunity, and the Warning From Early America

List of contents

Acknowledgments; 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.

About the author

Gideon 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.

Product details

• Authors: Nicola Hale, Gideon Mailer, Gideon Hale Mailer, Mailer Gideon
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.09.2019
• EAN: 9781785271588
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-158-8
• No. of pages: 354
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Indigenous Peoples, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, HISTORY / Indigenous / General, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity, Relating to Native American people / First Americans