{"product_id":"the-great-electors-table-molly-taylor-poleskey-9780813951614","title":"The Great Elector's Table: The Politics of Food in Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat food production, presentation, and consumption reveals about the exercise of power in early modern Germany\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In politics, as with food, presentation is everything. At the court of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in Brandenburg-Prussia, the two combined in a way that illuminates the social and cultural dynamics of seventeenth-century German life. In this remarkable book, the first of its kind, Molly Taylor-Poleskey offers an innovative critical approach to understanding how a particular dynasty and an unexceptional German state rose to their eminent position on the Central European stage following the devastation of the Thirty Years' War. Food, she shows, functioned both as a tool of self-aggrandizement for rulers and as a means of coercion and leverage in power negotiations. From bakers to botanists, court servants up and down the social ladder each had a role to play in the political life of this court. Moving beyond dusty bureaucratic narratives, this colorful and inviting book offers readers a new way of appreciating how culture, politics, the natural environment, and science intertwined in early modern German statecraft.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Molly Taylor-Poleskey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813951615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813951614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/23\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Molly Taylor-Poleskey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46135969448191,"sku":"9780813951614","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_060cabf9-04a6-409e-af24-d99ef5568d01.jpg?v=1726415309","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-great-electors-table-molly-taylor-poleskey-9780813951614","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}