ISBN:
9781350211995
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Series Statement:
History In 15 Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
394.120973
Keywords:
Social history
;
Civilization-History
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Pemmican: Food in the Not-So-New World -- 2 Corn: Colonization and Settlement, 1500-1750 -- 3 Whiskey: Eating and Drinking in a New Nation, 1750-1800 -- 4 Graham Bread: Early Nineteenth-Century Diet and Reform -- 5 Potlikker: Food and Slavery in the Antebellum South -- 6 Peanuts: The Civil War, Reconstruction, and After -- 7 Jell-O: Industrialization in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era -- 8 Spaghetti: Immigrants and Consumers in the 1910s and 1920s -- 9 Oranges: Food and Agriculture in the Great Depression -- 10 Spam: Eating in the Second World War -- 11 Green Bean Casserole: Postwar Foodways -- 12 Tofu: Food in the Counterculture and Protest Era, 1960-75 -- 13 Chicken Nuggets: Cheap Food and Politics in the 1970s and 1980s -- 14 Big Mac: McDonaldization and Its Discontents, 1990-2008 -- 15 Korean Tacos: Immigration, Social Media, and America Today -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Discussion Questions -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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