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The politics of purity : Harvey Washington Wiley and the origins of Federal food policy / Clayton A. Coppin and Jack High.

Title
The politics of purity : Harvey Washington Wiley and the origins of Federal food policy / Clayton A. Coppin and Jack High.
Author
Coppin, Clayton A.
Publication
Ann Arbor : Univeristy of Michigan Press, c1999.

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High, Jack C.
Description
219 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Spearheaded by Harvey Washington Wiley, the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 launched the federal regulation of food and drugs in the United States. Wiley is often lauded as a champion of public interest for bringing about a law that required healthful ingredients and honest labeling. Clayton A. Coppin and Jack High demonstrate, however, that Wiley was in fact surreptitiously allied with business firms that would benefit from regulation and, moreover, would help him build his government agency, the Federal Bureau of Chemistry."--BOOK JACKET. "This book will interest scholars concerned with government regulation, including those in economics, political science, history, or business."--Jacket.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Wiley, Harvey Washington, 1844-1930
  • Food law and legislation > United States > History
  • Competition, Unfair > United States > History
  • Food industry and trade > History. > United States
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. The Theory of Economic Regulation -- 2. The Way We Ate -- 3. Competition and Entrepreneurship in Bureaucracy: Harvey Wiley's Bureau of Chemistry, 1883-1903 -- 4. The Struggle for Legislative Dominance 1903-4 -- 5. The Struggle for Legislative Dominance 1904-6 -- 6. Setting Food Standards by Government Regulation -- 7. The Whiskey Wars -- 8. Sulphur and Benzoate of Soda -- 9. Corn Syrup and Coca-Cola -- 10. Administrative Dominance under President Taft.
ISBN
0472109847 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^99013530^
OCLC
40715474
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library