Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race

by Shane Hamilton

America fought the Cold War in part through supermarkets--and the food economy pioneered then has helped shape the way we eat today

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300232691
• ISBN13: 9780300232691
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.3"