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The donut : a Canadian history / Steve Penfold.
LIBRA TX770.D67 P46 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Penfold, Steven, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doughnuts--Social aspects--Canada.
- Doughnuts.
- Fast food restaurants--Social aspects--Canada.
- Fast food restaurants.
- Fast food restaurants--Economic aspects--Canada.
- Franchises (Retail trade)--Canada--History.
- Franchises (Retail trade).
- Consumption (Economics)--Canada--History.
- Consumption (Economics).
- History.
- Fast food restaurants--Economic aspects.
- Fast food restaurants--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- Canada--Social conditions--1945-.
- Canada.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction: History from the Bottomless Cup 3
- 1 Faith, Efficiency, and the Modern Donut: Inventing a Mass Commodity, 1920-1960 17
- 2 'Our New Palace of Donut Pleasure': The Donut Shop and Consumer Culture, 1961-1976 51
- 3 'He Must Give Up Certain Things': Franchising and the Making of the Donut Shop, 1960-1980 97
- 4 Expansion and Transformation: Colonizing the Canadian Foodscape, 1974-1999 130
- 5 Eddie Shack Was No Tim Horton: Donuts and the Folklore of Mass Culture in Canada, 1974-1999 165
- Conclusion: Commodity and Culture in Postwar Canada 190.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802097972
- 0802097979
- 9780802095459
- 0802095453
- OCLC:
- 166687872
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