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excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Corthorne. Today's podcast features a conversation with Rachel B. Herman, an academic who specialises in colonial, revolutionary and Atlantic history, with a particular focus on food and hunger.

Rachel has just written a new book, No Useless mouth, on food warfare and diplomacy

in the American Revolution, and she visited our Bristol offices recently to talk about it

with our content director David Musgrove.

We also filmed this conversation, so if you'd like to watch as well as listen, you can find that at our website, History Extra.com.

Okay, I'm taking a line from your introduction here.

And the quote is, no useless mouth is a book about how Native Americans, non-natives, and peoples of African descent experienced hunger before, during, and after the American Revolutionary War.

So before we get going, we should probably just clarify our chronology here.

Before, during, and after the war, what's the period that we're going to be talking about?

So when historians say the American Revolution, they can mean a couple different things.

So when they say War of independence or revolutionary war, they're usually just referring to the military conflict, which ends in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris between the British and the Americans.

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