Alexander Nutzenadel

Food and Globalization: Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World - Cultures of Consumption Series Alexander Nutzenadel

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Avail. in cloth. Table of Contents: List of Tables -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Mapping Food and Globalization / Alexander Nutzenadel, Frank Trentmann -- Part I. Evolution and Diversity -- 2. Food, Culture and Energy / Sidney W. Mintz -- 3. The Global Consumption of Hot Beverages, c. 1500 to c. 1900 / William G. Clarence Smith -- 4. The Limits of Globalization? The Horticultural Trades in Postbellum America / Marina Moskowitz -- 5. Commercial Rice Cultivation and the Regional Economy of Southeastern Asia, 1850-1950 / Paul H. Kratoska -- Part II. Diffusion and Identities -- 6. A Taste of Home: The Cultural and Economic Significance of European Food Exports to the Colonies / Richard Wilk -- 7. Americanizing Coffee: The Refashioning of a Consumer Culture / Michelle Craig McDonald, Steven Topik -- 8. Transnational Food Migration and the Internalization of Food Consumption: Ethnic Cuisine in West Germany / Maren Mohring -- Part III. Transnational Knowledge and Actors -- 9. A Green International? Food Markets and Transnational Politics, c. 1850-1914 / Alexander Nutzenadel -- 10. Starvation Science: From Colonies to Metropole / Dana Simmons -- 11. Illusions of Global Governance: Transnational Agribusiness inside the UN System / Christian Gerlach -- Part IV. Trade and Moralities -- 12. Postcolonial Paradoxes: The Cultural Economy of African Export Horticulture / Susanne Freidberg -- 13. Connections and Responsibilities: The Moral Geographies of Sugar / Peter Jackson, Neil Ward -- 14. Before Fair Trade Empire, Free Trade and the Moral Economies of Food in the Modern World / Frank Trentmann -- Index. Biographical Note: Alexander Nutzenadel is Chair of European Economic and Social History at the Europa-Universitat Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). Frank Trentmann is Professor of Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Director of the Cultures of Consumption research program, which is co-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

Contributor Bio:  Trentmann, Frank FRANK TRENTMANN is Senior Lecturer in History at Birkbeck College and Director of the ESRC- and AHRB-funded Cultures of Consumption Research Programme.