Food and Power in the Twentieth Century

Readings

SES #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Introduction
2	Food, Geography, History	Bell, David, and Gill Valentine. Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat. London, UK: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415137683.
3	The Basics: History and Theory	Tannahill, Reay. Food in History. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780517884041. Root, Waverley, and Richard de Rochemont. Eating in America: A History. New York, NY: Ecco, 1976. ISBN: 9780688030964. Barthes, Roland. “Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption.” In Food and Culture: A Reader. Edited by Carole Counihan, and Penny Van Esterik. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 20-27. ISBN: 9780415917100. Levi-Strauss, Claude. “The Culinary Triange.” In Food and Culture: A Reader. Edited by Carole Counihan, and Penny Van Esterik. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 28-35. ISBN: 9780415917100. Douglas, Mary. “Deciphering a Meal.” In Food and Culture: A Reader. Edited by Carole Counihan, and Penny Van Esterik. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 36-54. ISBN: 9780415917100.
4	Colonialism and Capitalism	Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York, NY: Viking Adult, 1985. ISBN: 9780670687022. Weiner, Mark. “Consumer Culture and Participatory Democracy: The Story of Coca-Cola during World War II.” In Food in the USA. Edited by Carole Counihan. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 123-141. ISBN: 9780415932325. Roseberry, William. “The Rise of Yuppie Coffee and The Reimagination of Class in the United States.” In Food in the USA. Edited by Carole Counihan. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 149-168. ISBN: 9780415932325. Striffler, Steve. In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780822328636. Dalby, Andrew. Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 2000. ISBN: 9780520227897.
5	The Raw and the Cooked, Frozen, Radiated, Etc.	Levenstein, Harvey. Paradox of Plenty. New York, NY: Oxford, 1988, 1993. ISBN: 9780195055436. Hamilton, Shane. “Cold Capitalism: The Political Ecology of Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice.” Agricultural History, no. 77 (Fall 2003): 557-81. Spiller, James. “Radiant Cuisine-The Commercial Fate of Food Irradiation in the United States.” Technology and Culture 45_,_ no. 4 (October 2004). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Buchanan, Nick. “The Atomic Meal.” In History and Technology. (Forthcoming) Bruegel, Martin. “How the French Learned to Eat Canned Food, 1809-1930s.” In Food Nations. Edited by Belasco, Warren and Philip Scranton. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001, pp. 113-130. ISBN: 9780415930772. Stull, Donald, Michael Broadway, and David Griffith, eds. Any Way You Cut It: Meat Processing and Small Town America. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1995. ISBN: 9780700607228.
6	Meat	Fink, Deborah. Cutting into the Meatpacknig Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780807846957. Striffler, Steven. “Inside a Poultry Processing Plant: An Ethnographic Portrait.” Labor History, no. 43 (2002): 305-13. Page, Brian. “Restructuring Pork Production, Remaking Rural Iowa.” In Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring. Edited by David Goodman, and Michael Watts. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 133-157. ISBN: 9780415162531. Boyd, William, and Michael Watts. “Agro-Industrial Just-in-Time: The Chicken Industry and Postwar American Capitalism.” In Goodman and Watts. pp. 192-225. Stull, Donald, Michael Broadway, and David Griffith, eds. Any Way You Cut It: Meat Processing and Small Town America. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1995. ISBN: 9780700607228.
7	Produce	Kramer, Mark. Three Farms: Making Meat, Milk and Money from the American Soil. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987. ISBN: 0674889363. Chapter on Tomatoes. McPhee, John. Oranges. New York: Noonday Press, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991, 1975. ISBN: 9780374512972. Barron, Hal. “Citriculture and Southern California: New Historical Perspectives,” Ronald Tobey, and Charles Wetherell. “The Citrus Industry and the Revolution of Corporate Capitalism in Southern California, 1887-1944,” H. Vincent Moses. “‘The Orange Grower is not a Farmer’: G. Harold Powell, Riverside Orchardists, and the Coming of Industrial Agriculture, 1893-1930,” and Grace Larsen. “Commentary.” California History, no. 74 (Spring 1995): 2-45. Guthman, Julie. Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780520240940. Lang, James. Notes of a Potato Watcher. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 2001. ISBN: 9781585441389.
8	Rice: Food, Identity, and Subsistence	Vennum, Thomas, Jr. Wild Rice and the Ojibway People. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1988. ISBN: 9780873512268. Sisters, Kitchen. “Ricing Time: Harvesting on the Lakes of White Earth.” Carney, Judith. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780674008342. Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780691021102.
9	Taboos and Identity	Peterson, Dale. Eating Apes. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780520230903. Harris, Marvin. “The Abominable Pig,” and “Hippophagy.” In Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1986, pp. 67-108. ISBN:  9780671503666. Pollan, Michael. “An Animal’s Place.” New York Times Sunday Magazine, November 10, 2002, pp. 58-65, 100, and 110-111.
10	Global Food, Global Surprises	Friedberg, Susanne. French Beans and Food Scares: Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age. New York, NY: Oxford, 2004. ISBN: 9780195169607. Watson, James L., ed. Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780804732079. Goodman, David, and Michael Watts, eds. Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415162531. Bonanno, Alessandro, Lawrence Busch, Willliam Friedland, Lourdes Gouveia, and Enzo Mingione, eds. From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994. ISBN: 9780700606610.
11	Slow and Fast	Petrini, Carlo. Slow Food (The Case for Taste). New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780231128445. Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. ISBN: 9780395977897. Kimbrell, Andrew, ed. Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture. Sausalito: Foundation for Deep Ecology, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002. ISBN: 9781559639415. Belasco, Warren. Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1993. ISBN: 9780801481284.
12	Biotechnology and Food Futures	Nottingham, Stephen. Eat Your Genes: How Genetically Modified Food is Entering our Diet. New York, NY: Zed, 1998. ISBN: 9781856495783. Lambrecht, Bill. Dinner at the New Gene Café. New York, NY: Thomas Dunne, 2001. ISBN: 9780312265755. Seabrook, John. “Tremors in the Hothouse.” New Yorker, July 19, 1993, pp. 40-41.