Belasco / Scranton Food Nations

Selling Taste in Consumer Societies
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-136-70076-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture

This original collection abandons culinary nostalgia and the cataloguing of regional cuisines to examine the role of food and food marketing in constructing culture, consumer behavior, and national identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Belasco, Warren

Scranton, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Phillip Scranton

Part 1: Contexts
1. Food Matters: Perspectives on an Emerging Field, Warren Belasco
2. Food and Eating: Some Persisting Questions, Sidney W. Mintz

Part 2: The Construction of National Cusines
3. Rituals of Pleasure in the Land of Treasures: Wine Consumption and the Making of French Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century, Kolleen M. Guy
4. "Eddie Shack was No Tim Horton": Donuts and the Folklore of Mass Culture in Canada, Steve Penfold
5. Food and Nationalism: The Origins of "Belizean Food", Richard R. Wilk

Part 3: The Business of Taste
6. Inventing Baby Food: Gerber and the Discourse of Infancy in the United States, Amy Bentley
7. How the French Learned to Eat Canned Food, 1809-1930s, Martin Bruegel
8. Searching for Gold in Guacamole: California Growers Market the Avocado, 1910-1994, Jeffery Charles

Part 4: Ethnicity, Class, and the Food Industry
9. Untangling Alliances: Social Tensions Surrounding Independent Grocery Stores and the Rise of Mass Retailing, Tracey Deutsch
10. As American as Budwiser and Pickles? Nation-Building in American Food Industries, Donna R. Gabaccia
11. Comida Sin Par. Construction of Mexican Food in Los Angeles: "Foodscapes" in a Transnational Consumer Society, Silivia Ferrero

Part 5: Food and National Politics
12. Industrial Tortillas and Folkloric Pepsi: The Nutritional Consequences of Hybrid Cuisines in Mexico, Jeffery M. Pilcher
13. Berlin in the Belle Epoque: A Fast Food History, Keith Allen
14. Food and the Politics of Scarcity in Urban Soviet Russia, 1917-1941, Mauricio Borrero

Notes on the Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Warren Belasco is Professor of American Studies at University of Maryland and one of the leading scholars in food studies. He is the author of Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry.

Philip Scranton is the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University and research director at the Hagley Museum and Library. He is the author or editor of six books, including Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization.