Food power : the rise and fall of the postwar American food system
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017].
ISBN
9780190600686, 0190600683
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LC Subjects
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Agriculture and politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Agriculture and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Food security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Food supply -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
History.
United States -- Foreign relations.
Agriculture and politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Agriculture and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Food security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Food supply -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
History.
United States -- Foreign relations.
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Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
x, 251 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780190600686, 0190600683
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-241) and index.
Description
"There is a widespread assumption that the American food system after World War II was transformed-- toward an increasingly industrialized production of crops, more processed foods, and diets higher in fat, sugar, and calories-- as part of a unified system. In this book, Bryan McDonald brings together the history of food, agriculture, and foreign policy to explore how food was deployed in the first decades of the Cold War to promote American national security and national interests, a concept referred to as food power. In the postwar years, Americans struggled to understand how an unprecedented abundance of food could be used to best advance U.S. goals and values. Was food a weapon, a commodity to be valued and exchanged through markets, or a substance to be provided to those in need? McDonald traces different visions of food power and shows how food formed an essential part of America's postwar modernization strategy and its vision of what it meant to be a stable, secure, and technologically advanced nation. Policymakers and experts helped build a new food system based around American agricultural surpluses that stabilized prices and food availability. This system averted a global-scale food crisis for almost three decades. The end of this food system in the early 1970s ushered in a much more precarious period in global food relations. By the late twentieth century, food politics had become a battleground in which the interests of security and foreign policy experts, farmers, businesses, and politicians contended with a growing social movement whose adherents worried about the role of food in contributing to conflict and inequality. [This book] argues that the ways postwar American policymakers and experts politically linked people and places around the world through food illuminates both America's role in the world during the mid-twentieth century and sheds light on contemporary food problems."--Amazon.com.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
McDonald, B. (2017). Food power: the rise and fall of the postwar American food system . Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McDonald, Bryan. 2017. Food Power: The Rise and Fall of the Postwar American Food System. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McDonald, Bryan. Food Power: The Rise and Fall of the Postwar American Food System Oxford University Press, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)McDonald, Bryan. Food Power: The Rise and Fall of the Postwar American Food System Oxford University Press, 2017.
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