My Account Log in

1 option

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

Bloomsbury Cultural History Core Collection Available online

View online
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:
1 online resource (xv, 284 pages) : illustrations
Edition:
English ed.
Place of Publication:
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2008.
Contents:
Introduction: Mapping food and globalization / Alexander Nützenadel and Frank Trentmann
Part I: Evolution and diversity
Food, Culture, and energy / Sidney W. Mintz
The Western Consumption of Hot Beverages, c.1500 to c.1880 / William G. Clarence Smith
The limits of globalization? The horticultural trades in postbellum America / Marina Moskowitz
Commericial rice cultivation and the regional economy of Southeastern Asia, 1850-1950 / Paul H. Kratoska
Part II: Diffusion and indentities
A Taste of Home: The Cultural and Economic Significance of European Food Exports to the Colonies / Richard Wilk
American coffee: the refashioning of a consumer culture / Michelle Craig McDonald and Steven Topik
Traditional Food Migration and the internalization of food Consumption: Ethnic Cuisine in West Germany / Maren Möhring
Part III: Transnational knowledge and actors
A Green International? Food markets and transnational politics, c.1850-1914 / Alexander Nützenadel
Starvation Science: From colonies to Metropole / Dana Simmons
Illusions of global governance: Transnational agribusiness inside the UN system / Christian Gerlach
Part IV: Trade and moralities
Postcolonial paradoxes: The cultural economy of African export horticulture / Susanne Freidberg
Connections and Responsibilities: The moral geographies of Sugar / Peter Jackson and Neil Ward
Before Fair Trade empire, free trade and the Moral Economies of Food in the Modern world / Frank Trentmann.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2014 dcunns
Other Format:
Original
ISBN:
9781350047655 (online)
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.

My Account

Shelf Request an item Bookmarks Fines and fees Settings

Guides

Using the Library Catalog Using Articles+ Library Account