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Food power : the rise and fall of the postwar American food system / Bryan L. McDonald.
LIBRA HD1761 .M26 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDonald, Bryan (Bryan L.), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture and state--United States--History--20th century.
- Agriculture and state.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture and politics--United States--History--20th century.
- Agriculture and politics.
- Food supply--United States--History--20th century.
- Food supply.
- Food security--United States--History--20th century.
- Food security.
- History.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects.
- United States--Foreign relations.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 251 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Introduction: food power, the food network, and American security
- Freedom from want: creating a postwar food system
- Fixed stomachs and convenience foods: abundance and food in the 1950s
- Freedom to farm: prosperity, security, and "the farm problem" in the 1950s
- What to eat after an atomic bomb: deploying food power defensively
- Food for peace and the war on hunger: food power in the 1960s
- The world food crisis and the end of the postwar food system
- Conclusion: the past, present, and future of world food problems.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: McDonald, Bryan (Bryan L.), author. Food power.
- ISBN:
- 9780190600686
- 0190600683
- OCLC:
- 953439053
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