{"product_id":"food-and-eating-in-america-a-documentary-reader-uncovering-the-past-documentary-readers-in-american-history-9781118936399","title":"Food and Eating in America: A Documentary Reader (Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History)","description":"\u003cp\u003eGuides students through a rich menu of American history through food and eating This book features a wide and diverse range of primary sources covering the cultivation  preparation  marketing  and consumption of food from the time before Europeans arrived in North America to the present-day United States. It is organized around what the authors label the Four Psproduction  politics  price  and preferencein order to show readers that food represents something more than nutrition and the daily meals that keep us alive. The documents in this book demonstrate that food we eat is a highly condensed social fact that both reflects and is shaped by politics  economics  culture  religion  region  race  class  and gender. Food and Eating in America covers more than 500 years of American food and eating history with sections on: An Appetizer: What Food and Eating Tell Us About America; Hunting  Harvesting  Starving  and the Occasional Feast: Food in Early America; Fields and Foods in the Nineteenth Century; Feeding a Modern World: Revolutions in Farming  Food  and Famine; and Counterculture Cuisines and Culinary Tourism. Presents primary sources from a wide variety of perspectivesNative Americans  explorers  public officials  generals  soldiers  slaves  slaveholders  clergy  businessmen  workers  immigrants  activists  African Americans  Hispanics  Asian Americans  artists  writers  investigative reporters  judges  the owners of food trucks  and prison inmates Illustrates the importance of eating and food through speeches  letters  diaries  memoirs  newspaper and magazine articles  illustrations  photographs  song lyrics  advertisements  legislative statutes  court rulings  interviews  manifestoes  government reports  and recipes Offers a new way of exploring how people lived in the past by looking closely and imaginatively at food Food and Eating in America: A Documentary Reader is an ideal book for students of United States history  food  and the social sciences. It will also appeal to foodies and those with a curiosity for documentary-style books of all kinds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647599337525,"sku":"ByrdShop_1118936396","price":46.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781118936399.jpg?v=1781695255","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/food-and-eating-in-america-a-documentary-reader-uncovering-the-past-documentary-readers-in-american-history-9781118936399","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}