Food as nostalgia: Eating the fifties and sixties

Australian Historical Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 113, 1999, Pages 231-250

  Duruz, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEVERAGE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EATING; ECONOMICS; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; FAMILY SIZE; FOOD; HEALTH; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; LIFESTYLE; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AUSTRALIA; BEVERAGES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EATING; EMOTIONS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FOOD; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; LIFE STYLE; MEMORY; SOCIAL CLASS; SUBURBAN HEALTH; SUBURBAN POPULATION;

EID: 4544288929     PISSN: 1031461X     EISSN: 19405049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10314619908596100     Document Type: Article

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