Food and globalization : consumption, markets and politics in the modern world / edited by Alexander Nützenadel and Frank Trentmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nützenadel, Alexander

Trentmann, Frank.

Series:

Cultures of consumption series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food industry and trade.

Food supply--Political aspects.

Food supply.

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Food habits--Cross-cultural studies.

Food habits.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2008.

Summary:

Food has a special significance in the expanding field of global history. Food markets were the first to become globally integrated, linking distant cultures of the world. In no other area have the interactions between global exchange and local cultural practices been as pronounced as in changing food cultures.

In this wide-ranging and fascinating book, the authors offer an historical overview of the relationship between food and globalization in the modern world. Together, the chapters of this book provide a fresh perspective on both global history and food studies. This book will be of interest to a wide range of students and scholars of history, food studies, sociology, anthropology, geography and globalization.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Mapping Food and Globalization / Alexander Nutzenadel, Frank Trentmann 1

Part I Evolution and Diversity

2 Food, Culture and Energy / Sidney W. Mintz 21

3 The Global Consumption of Hot Beverages, c. 1500 to c. 1900 / William G. Clarence Smith 37

4 The Limits of Globalization? The Horticultural Trades in Postbellum America / Marina Moskowitz 57

5 Commercial Rice Cultivation and the Regional Economy of Southeastern Asia, 1850-1950 / Paul H. Kratoska 75

Part II Diffusion and Identities

6 A Taste of Home: The Cultural and Economic Significance of European Food Exports to the Colonies / Richard Wilk 93

7 Americanizing Coffee: The Refashioning of a Consumer Culture / Michelle Craig McDonald, Steven Topik 109

8 Transnational Food Migration and the Internalization of Food Consumption: Ethnic Cuisine in West Germany / Maren Mohring 129

Part III Transnational Knowledge and Actors

9 A Green International? Food Markets and Transnational Politics, c. 1850-1914 / Alexander Nutzenadel 153

10 Starvation Science: From Colonies to Metropole / Dana Simmons 173

11 Illusions of Global Governance: Transnational Agribusiness inside the UN System / Christian Gerlach 193

Part IV Trade and Moralities

12 Postcolonial Paradoxes: The Cultural Economy of African Export Horticulture / Susanne Freidberg 215

13 Connections and Responsibilities: The Moral Geographies of Sugar / Peter Jackson, Neil Ward 235

14 Before Fair Trade Empire, Free Trade and the Moral Economies of Food in the Modern World / Frank Trentmann 253.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845206789

1845206789

9781845206796

1845206797

OCLC:

191847148

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