A reissue of a scholarly classic considers the influence of the potato on the social structure and economy throughout history wherever men adopted it as a mains

From the gold potatoes at the Sun Temple in Cuzco, Peru, the muddy ones in Ireland and those grown in China for MacDonalds chips, via Mrs Beeton, Charles Darwin

Photojournalist Reader (Africa: A Biography of the Continent) traces the humble potato from its roots in the Peruvian Andes to J.R. Simplot's multibillion-dolla

Almost no one knew what a potato was in 1500. Today they are the world's fourth most important food. How did this happen?

Mussolini, in the thousand guises he projected and the press picked up, fascinated Americans in the 1920s and the early '30s. John Diggins' analysis of America'