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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Prologue and Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Excavating Longue Durée Histories of Food Security in Africa 19
7. 2. Choosing Local over Global during the Columbian Exchange 39
8. 3. Tasting Privilege and Privation during Asante Rule and the Atlantic Slave Trade 61
9. 4. Creating Chronic Food Insecurity in the Gold Coast Colony 95
10. 5. Consuming a Remotely Global Modernity in Recent Times 129
11. 6. Eating and Remembering Past Cultural Achievements 158
12. Appendix A. Methodology 169
13. Appendix B. Archaeobotanical Data 177
14. Appendix C. Wild Leaves Used by Modern Villages 183
15. Notes 187
16. References 197
17. Index 217