Food power : the rise and fall of the postwar American food system / Bryan L. McDonald

By: Language: English Publication details: New York, NY : OUP, 2017Description: x, 251 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780190600686
  • 0190600683
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Contents:
Introduction: food power, the food network, and American security -- Freedom from want: creating a postwar food system -- Fixed stomachs and convenience foods: abundance and food in the 1950s -- Freedom to farm: prosperity, security, and "the farm problem" in the 1950s -- What to eat after an atomic bomb: deploying food power defensively -- Food for peace and the war on hunger: food power in the 1960s -- The world food crisis and the end of the postwar food system -- Conclusion: the past, present, and future of world food problems.
Item type: monograph
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SIPRI Library and Documentation 312+63 McDonald Available G17/241

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: food power, the food network, and American security -- Freedom from want: creating a postwar food system -- Fixed stomachs and convenience foods: abundance and food in the 1950s -- Freedom to farm: prosperity, security, and "the farm problem" in the 1950s -- What to eat after an atomic bomb: deploying food power defensively -- Food for peace and the war on hunger: food power in the 1960s -- The world food crisis and the end of the postwar food system -- Conclusion: the past, present, and future of world food problems.

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