Nutzenadei,Alexander

Food and globalization : consumption, markets and politics in the modern world / edited by Alexander Nützenadel and Frank Trentmann. - English ed. - Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2008. - xv, 284 pages.: Illustrations 25 cm. - Cultures of consumption series .

Includes Bibliographical Reference and Index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781845206789 (cloth) 1845206789 (cloth) 9781845206796 (pbk.) 1845206797 (pbk.)

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Food industry and trade.
Food supply--Political aspects.
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
Food habits--Cross-cultural studies.
Globalization--Economic aspects.

HD 9000.5 / .F58 2008

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