Bryan L. McDonald (Pennsylvania Sta Assistant Professor of History

Food Power

The Rise and Fall of the Postwar American Food System

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Produktbeschreibung

Food Power brings together the history of food, agriculture, and foreign policy to explore the use of food to promote American national security and national interests during the first three decades of the Cold War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780190600686
• ISBN-10: 0190600683
• Artikelnr.: 47864471

Autorenporträt

Bryan McDonald is Assistant Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: Food Power, the Food Network, and American Security
* Chapter 1: Freedom from Want: Creating a Postwar Food System
* Chapter 2: Fixed Stomachs and Convenience Foods: Abundance and Food
in the 1950s
* Chapter 3: Freedom to Farm: Prosperity, Security, and "the Farm
Problem" in the 1950s
* Chapter 4: What to Eat After an Atomic Bomb: Deploying Food Power
Defensively
* Chapter 5: Food for Peace and the War on Hunger: Food Power in the
1960s
* Chapter 6: The World Food Crisis and the End of the Postwar Food
System
* Conclusion: The Past, Present, and Future of World Food Problems
* Notes
* Index