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Venus Bivar, “Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France” (UNC Press, 2018)

Venus Bivar
Organic Resistance
The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France
University of North Carolina Press, 2018

New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in Food New Books in French Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network October 16, 2018 David Fouser

In Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Venus Bivar documents the development of agriculture in post-1944 France. Through the Second World War, France’s agriculture was comparatively backward next to those of its neighbors and geopolitical rivals. The French government undertook... Read More

Benjamin R. Siegel, “Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India” (Cambridge UP, 2018)

Benjamin R. Siegel
Hungry Nation
Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Food New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network October 5, 2018 Madhuri Karak

In his first book Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India (Cambridge University Press 2018), historian Benjamin Robert Siegel explores independent India’s attempts to feed itself between the 1940s and 1970s. Following the devastating Bengal famine of 1943, hunger and malnutrition remained key issues for India’s politicians, planners and... Read More

Alyshia Gálvez, “Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico” (U. California Press, 2018)

Alyshia Gálvez
Eating NAFTA
Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico
University of California Press, 2018

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Economics New Books in Food New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books Network September 19, 2018 Eric LeMay

The North American Free Trade Agreement—or NAFTA, as we Americans call it—is very much in the news of late, primarily because President Trump has decided to make good on what he famously called “the single worst trade deal” that the United States has ever approved. Trump’s assessment, like so many... Read More

Shachar M. Pinsker
A Rich Brew
How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture
NYU Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network August 6, 2018 David Gottlieb

The café, long a European institution, was also a stimulant and a refuge for European Jewish culture. In cities across Europe, and later in Palestine, Israel, and the United States, Jewish journalists, poets, and thinkers gathered in cafés to socialize, argue, create, and simply to be in a space that... Read More

Kelley Fanto Deetz, “Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine” (UP of Kentucky, 2017)

Kelley Fanto Deetz
Bound to the Fire
How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine
University Press of Kentucky, 2017

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network July 26, 2018 Valerie Saint-Rossy

The concept of “Southern hospitality” began to take form in the late eighteenth century and became especially associated with Virginia’s grand plantations. This state was home to many of our founding fathers. Their galas, balls, feasts, and entertainments became famous internationally as well as at home. On whose shoulders did... Read More