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Author:   Benjamin Lawrance (University of Arizona, USA) ,  Carolyn de la Peña
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780415697750

ISBN 10:   0415697751
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   31 January 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Carole Counihan 1. Introduction: Foodways, ‘Foodism,’ or Foodscapes? Navigating the Local/Global and Food/Culture Divides Carolyn de la Peña and Benjamin N. Lawrance 2. Milk for 'Growth': Global and Local Meanings of Milk Consumption in China, India, and the United States Andrea S. Wiley 3. Appetites Without Prejudice: U.S. Foreign Restaurants and the Globalization of American Food Between the Wars Audrey Russek 4. Virginia Ham: The Local and Global of Colonial Foodways Megan E. Edwards 5. Making White Bread by the Bomb's Early Light: Anxiety, Abundance, and Industrial Food Power in the Early Cold War Aaron Bobrow-Strain 6. 'To Avoid This Mixture': Rethinking Pulque in Colonial Mexico City Daniel Nemser 7. 'To Make a Curry the India Way': Tracking the Meaning of Curry Across Eighteenth-Century Communities Stephanie R. Maroney 8. The 'Coffee Doctors': The Language of Taste and the Rise of Rwanda's Specialty Bean Value Jenny Elaine Goldstein 9. Fast Food and Nutritional Perceptions in the Age of 'Globesity': Perspectives from the Provincial Philippines Ty Matejowsky 10. A House of Honey: White Sugar, Brown Sugar, and the Taste for Modernity in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia G. Roger Knight Afterword Rachel Laudan

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Benjamin N. Lawrance, Ph.D. is the Barber B. Conable, Jr. Endowed Chair of International Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. He is the author of Trafficking in Women and Children in Africa: Colonial Conflicts and Postcolonial Remedies (2012), Locality, Mobility, and 'Nation' (2007), Interpreters, Intermediaries and Clerks (2006), and The Ewe of Togo and Benin (2006). Carolyn de la Pena is a Professor of American Studies and Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of California at Davis, USA. Her most recent book is Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda (2010).

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