Introduction

Business History Review

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 233-238

  Hamilton, Shane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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EID: 69849115000     PISSN: 00076805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500000507     Document Type: Review

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1. Studies examining the intersection of culture and the business of producing and consuming food include: Warren Belasco and Philip Scranton, eds., Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies (New York, 2002)
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30. Susan Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market (New York, 1989)
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34. On the fish stick, see: Paul R. Josephson, "The Ocean's Hot Dog: The Development of the Fish Stick," Technology and Culture 49 (Jan. 2008): 41-61.
35. 7Warren J. Belasco and Roger Horowitz, eds., Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart (Philadelphia, 2009)
36. Shane Hamilton, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (Princeton, 2008)
37. Erik van der Vleuten, "Feeding the Peoples of Europe: Transport Infrastructures and the Building of Transnational Cooling Chains in the Early Cold War, 1947-1960," in Untangling Infrastructures and Europe: Mediations, Events, Scales, ed. Alexander Badenoch (London, forthcoming)
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51. Susanne Freidberg, Fresh: A Perishable History (Cambridge, Mass., 2009). For a longer introduction to much of this literature
52. For a longer introduction to much of this literature, see Shane Hamilton, "Analyzing Commodity Chains: Linkages or Restraints?" in Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart, ed. Warren J. Belasco and Roger Horowitz (Philadelphia, 2009), 16-27.
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62. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York, 2006);
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72. Jeffrey Pilcher, The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917 (Albuquerque, 2006);
73. Marion Nestle, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (Berkeley, 2002);
74. Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Berkeley, 2003);
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