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Supermarket USA : food and power in the Cold War farms race

Title

Supermarket USA : food and power in the Cold War farms race / Shane Hamilton.

Author

Hamilton, Shane, 1976-

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description

x, 277 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American-style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist weapons during the Cold War, and how that has shaped our current food system. The widespread appeal of supermarkets as weapons of free enterprise contributed to a 'farms race' between the United States and the Soviet Union, as the superpowers vied to show that their contrasting approaches to food production and distribution were best suited to an abundant future. In the aftermath of the Cold War, U.S. food power was transformed into a global system of market power, laying the groundwork for the emergence of our contemporary world, in which transnational supermarkets operate as powerful institutions in a global food economy"--Dust jacket flaps.

Alternative Title

Food and power in the Cold War farms race

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-265) and index.

Contents

Machines for selling -- The farms race begins -- Supermercado USA -- Socialist supermarkets and "peaceful competition" -- Food chains and free enterprise -- Food power and the global supermarket.

ISBN

9780300232691
0300232691

LCCN

2017963802

OCLC

on1024159930
1024159930
SCSB-9199059

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library