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Guides students through a rich menu of American history through
food and eating This book features a wide and diverse range of
primary sources covering the cultivation, preparation, marketing,
and consumption of food from the time before Europeans arrived in
North America to the present-day United States. It is organized
around what the authors label the "Four P's"--production, politics,
price, and preference--in order to show readers that food
represents something more than nutrition and the daily meals that
keep us alive. The documents in this book demonstrate that food we
eat is a "highly condensed social fact" that both reflects and is
shaped by politics, economics, culture, religion, region, race,
class, and gender. Food and Eating in America covers more than 500
years of American food and eating history with sections on: An
Appetizer: What Food and Eating Tell Us About America; Hunting,
Harvesting, Starving, and the Occasional Feast: Food in Early
America; Fields and Foods in the Nineteenth Century; Feeding a
Modern World: Revolutions in Farming, Food, and Famine; and
Counterculture Cuisines and Culinary Tourism. Presents primary
sources from a wide variety of perspectives--Native Americans,
explorers, public officials, generals, soldiers, slaves,
slaveholders, clergy, businessmen, workers, immigrants, activists,
African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, artists, writers,
investigative reporters, judges, the owners of food trucks, and
prison inmates Illustrates the importance of eating and food
through speeches, letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper and magazine
articles, illustrations, photographs, song lyrics, advertisements,
legislative statutes, court rulings, interviews, manifestoes,
government reports, and recipes Offers a new way of exploring how
people lived in the past by looking closely and imaginatively at
food Food and Eating in America: A Documentary Reader is an ideal
book for students of United States history, food, and the social
sciences. It will also appeal to foodies and those with a curiosity
for documentary-style books of all kinds.
Guides students through a rich menu of American history through
food and eating This book features a wide and diverse range of
primary sources covering the cultivation, preparation, marketing,
and consumption of food from the time before Europeans arrived in
North America to the present-day United States. It is organized
around what the authors label the "Four P's"--production, politics,
price, and preference--in order to show readers that food
represents something more than nutrition and the daily meals that
keep us alive. The documents in this book demonstrate that food we
eat is a "highly condensed social fact" that both reflects and is
shaped by politics, economics, culture, religion, region, race,
class, and gender. Food and Eating in America covers more than 500
years of American food and eating history with sections on: An
Appetizer: What Food and Eating Tell Us About America; Hunting,
Harvesting, Starving, and the Occasional Feast: Food in Early
America; Fields and Foods in the Nineteenth Century; Feeding a
Modern World: Revolutions in Farming, Food, and Famine; and
Counterculture Cuisines and Culinary Tourism. Presents primary
sources from a wide variety of perspectives--Native Americans,
explorers, public officials, generals, soldiers, slaves,
slaveholders, clergy, businessmen, workers, immigrants, activists,
African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, artists, writers,
investigative reporters, judges, the owners of food trucks, and
prison inmates Illustrates the importance of eating and food
through speeches, letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper and magazine
articles, illustrations, photographs, song lyrics, advertisements,
legislative statutes, court rulings, interviews, manifestoes,
government reports, and recipes Offers a new way of exploring how
people lived in the past by looking closely and imaginatively at
food Food and Eating in America: A Documentary Reader is an ideal
book for students of United States history, food, and the social
sciences. It will also appeal to foodies and those with a curiosity
for documentary-style books of all kinds.
By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery
County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia,
this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history
to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis. Andrew C. Baker
examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical
preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned the
city to live in the metropolitan countryside during the twentieth
century. These property owners formed the vanguard of the
antigrowth movement that has defined metropolitan fringe politics
across the nation. In the rural South, subdivisions, reservoirs,
homesteads, and historical villages each obscured the troubling
legacies of racism and rural poverty and celebrated a refashioned
landscape. That landscape's historical and environmental
"authenticity" served as a foil to the alienation and ugliness of
suburbia. Using a source base that includes the records of
preservation organizations and local, state, and federal government
agencies, as well as oral histories, Baker explores the distinct
roots of the environmental politics and the shifting relationship
between city and country within these metropolitan fringe regions.
Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides
a sweeping reinterpretation of the post-Civil War South by framing
the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. For
more than six decades, scholars have caricatured southerners as so
desperate for economic growth that they rapaciously consumed the
region's abundant natural resources. Yet business leaders and
public officials did not see profit and environmental quality as
mutually exclusive goals, and they promoted methods of conserving
resources that they thought would ensure long-term economic growth.
Southerners called this idea "permanence." But permanence was a
contested concept, and these business people clashed with other
stakeholders as they struggled to find new ways of using valuable
resources. The Price of Permanence shows how these struggles
indelibly shaped the modern South. Bryan writes the region into the
national conservation movement for the first time and shows that
business leaders played a key role shaping the ideals of American
conservationists. This book also dismantles one of the most
persistent caricatures of southerners: that they had little
interest in environmental quality. Conservation provided white
elites with a tool for social control, and this is the first work
to show how struggles over resource policy fueled Jim Crow. The
ideology of "permanence" protected some resources but did not
prevent degradation of the environment overall, and The Price of
Permanence ultimately uses lessons from the New South to reflect on
sustainability today.
Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia's "Little Grand
Canyon," preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly
caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It
is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental
disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a
modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters
attempted to have Providence Canyon protected as a national park,
insisting that it was natural. At the same time, national and
international soil experts and other environmental reformers used
Providence Canyon as the apotheosis of human, and particularly
southern, land abuse. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the
unlikely story of Providence Canyon-and the 1930s contest over its
origins and meaning-to recount the larger history of dramatic
human-induced soil erosion across the South and to highlight the
role that the region and its erosive agricultural history played in
the rise of soil science and soil conservation in America. More
than that, though, the book is a meditation on the ways in which
our persistent mental habit of separating nature from culture has
stunted our ability to appreciate places like Providence Canyon and
to understand the larger history of American conservation.
By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery
County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia,
this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history
to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis. Andrew C. Baker
examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical
preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned the
city to live in the metropolitan countryside during the twentieth
century. These property owners formed the vanguard of the
antigrowth movement that has defined metropolitan fringe politics
across the nation. In the rural South, subdivisions, reservoirs,
homesteads, and historical villages each obscured the troubling
legacies of racism and rural poverty and celebrated a refashioned
landscape. That landscape's historical and environmental
"authenticity" served as a foil to the alienation and ugliness of
suburbia. Using a source base that includes the records of
preservation organizations and local, state, and federal government
agencies, as well as oral histories, Baker explores the distinct
roots of the environmental politics and the shifting relationship
between city and country within these metropolitan fringe regions.
Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often
served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American
conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier,
wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture,
bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with
modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains,
scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and
outsiders consistently believed that the region's environment made
Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse. With chapters
dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew
A. Swanson builds upon recent Appalachian studies scholarship,
emphasizing the diversity of a region so long considered a
homogenous backwater. While Appalachia has a recognizable and real
coherence rooted in folkways, agriculture, and politics (among
other things), it is also a region of varied environments, people,
and histories. These discrete stories are, however, linked through
the power of conceptualizing nature and work together to reveal the
ways in which ideas and uses of nature often created a sense of
identity in Appalachia. Delving into the environmental history of
the region reveals that Appalachian environments, rather than
separating the mountains from the broader world, often served to
connect the region to outside places.
Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often
served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American
conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier,
wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture,
bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with
modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains,
scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and
outsiders consistently believed that the region's environment made
Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse. With chapters
dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew
A. Swanson builds upon recent Appalachian studies scholarship,
emphasizing the diversity of a region so long considered a
homogenous backwater. While Appalachia has a recognizable and real
coherence rooted in folkways, agriculture, and politics (among
other things), it is also a region of varied environments, people,
and histories. These discrete stories are, however, linked through
the power of conceptualizing nature and work together to reveal the
ways in which ideas and uses of nature often created a sense of
identity in Appalachia. Delving into the environmental history of
the region reveals that Appalachian environments, rather than
separating the mountains from the broader world, often served to
connect the region to outside places.
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