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The Routledge History of American Foodways provides an important
overview of the main themes surrounding the history of food in the
Americas from the pre-colonial era to the present day. By broadly
incorporating the latest food studies research, the book explores
the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades in
this crucial field. The volume is composed of four parts. The first
part explores the significant developments in US food history in
one of five time periods to situate the topical and thematic
chapters to follow. The second part examines the key ingredients in
the American diet throughout time, allowing authors to analyze many
of these foods as items that originated in or dramatically impacted
the Americas as a whole, and not just the United States. The third
part focuses on how these ingredients have been transformed into
foods identified with the American diet, and on how Americans have
produced and presented these foods over the last four centuries.
The final section explores how food practices are a means of
embodying ideas about identity, showing how food choices,
preferences, and stereotypes have been used to create and maintain
ideas of difference. Including essays on all the key topics and
issues, The Routledge History of American Foodways comprises work
from a leading group of scholars and presents a comprehensive
survey of the current state of the field. It will be essential
reading for all those interested in the history of food in American
culture.
The Routledge History of American Foodways provides an important
overview of the main themes surrounding the history of food in the
Americas from the pre-colonial era to the present day. By broadly
incorporating the latest food studies research, the book explores
the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades in
this crucial field. The volume is composed of four parts. The first
part explores the significant developments in US food history in
one of five time periods to situate the topical and thematic
chapters to follow. The second part examines the key ingredients in
the American diet throughout time, allowing authors to analyze many
of these foods as items that originated in or dramatically impacted
the Americas as a whole, and not just the United States. The third
part focuses on how these ingredients have been transformed into
foods identified with the American diet, and on how Americans have
produced and presented these foods over the last four centuries.
The final section explores how food practices are a means of
embodying ideas about identity, showing how food choices,
preferences, and stereotypes have been used to create and maintain
ideas of difference. Including essays on all the key topics and
issues, The Routledge History of American Foodways comprises work
from a leading group of scholars and presents a comprehensive
survey of the current state of the field. It will be essential
reading for all those interested in the history of food in American
culture.
In Producing Predators Michael D. Wise argues that contestations
between Native and non-Native people over hunting, labor, and the
livestock industry drove the development of predator eradication
programs in Montana and Alberta from the 1880s onward. The history
of these antipredator programs was significant not only for their
ecological effects but also for their enduring cultural legacies of
colonialism in the Northern Rockies. By targeting wolves and other
wild carnivores for extermination, cattle ranchers disavowed the
predatory labor of raising domestic animals for slaughter,
representing it instead as productive work. Meanwhile, federal
agencies sought to purge the Blackfoot, Salish-Kootenai, and other
indigenous peoples of their so-called predatory behaviors through
campaigns of assimilation and citizenship that forcefully
privatized tribal land and criminalized hunting and its related
ritual practices. Despite these colonial pressures, Native
communities resisted and negotiated the terms of their
dispossession by representing their own patterns of work, food, and
livelihood as productive. By exploring predation and production as
fluid cultural logics for valuing labor rather than just a set of
biological processes, Producing Predators offers a new perspective
on the history of the American West and the modern history of
colonialism more broadly.
In Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism
in American History, Michael D. Wise confronts four common myths
about Indigenous food history: that most Native communities did not
practice agriculture; that Native people were primarily hunters;
that Native people were usually hungry; and that Native people
never developed taste or cuisine. Wise argues that colonial
expectations of food and agriculture have long structured ways of
seeing (and of not seeing) Native land and labor. Combining
original historical research with interdisciplinary perspectives
and informed by the work of Indigenous food sovereignty advocates
and activists, this study sheds new light on the historical roles
of Native American cuisine in American history and the significance
of ongoing colonial processes in present-day discussions about the
place of Native foods and Native history in our evolving worlds of
taste, justice, and politics.
In Producing Predators Michael D. Wise argues that contestations
between Native and non-Native people over hunting, labor, and the
livestock industry drove the development of predator eradication
programs in Montana and Alberta from the 1880s onward. The history
of these antipredator programs was significant not only for their
ecological effects but also for their enduring cultural legacies of
colonialism in the Northern Rockies. By targeting wolves and other
wild carnivores for extermination, cattle ranchers disavowed the
predatory labor of raising domestic animals for slaughter,
representing it instead as productive work. Meanwhile, federal
agencies sought to purge the Blackfoot, Salish-Kootenai, and other
indigenous peoples of their so-called predatory behaviors through
campaigns of assimilation and citizenship that forcefully
privatized tribal land and criminalized hunting and its related
ritual practices. Despite these colonial pressures, Native
communities resisted and negotiated the terms of their
dispossession by representing their own patterns of work, food, and
livelihood as productive. By exploring predation and production as
fluid cultural logics for valuing labor rather than just a set of
biological processes, Producing Predators offers a new perspective
on the history of the American West and the modern history of
colonialism more broadly.
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