商品簡介
Fourteen papers by academics based in the US and Europe represent a November 1999 conference titled Food and Drink in Consumer Societies, sponsored by the Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE. They address issues related to food, nationalism, and politics, as well as food, business, and culture, approaching the subject using the perspectives and methods of anthropology, sociology, and folklore; ethnic, business, and cultural history; and technology studies, marketing, and gender analysis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Warren Belasco is Professor of American Studies at University of Maryland and one of the leading scholars in food studies. He is the author of Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry.
Philip Scranton is the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University and research director at the Hagley Museum and Library. He is the author or editor of six books, including Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization.
