Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies

From: Business History Review | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: Hogan, David G | Copyright information

Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies. Edited by Warren Belasco and Philip Scranton. New York: Routledge, 2002. VIII + 288 pp. Index, notes, figures, illustrations, tables. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 0-415-93077-4.

New directions in historical research and writing should be applauded. Going against the scholarly grain in deciding what topics are significant is professionally risky, which is why most novice historians tend to confine their research to areas whose boundaries have be...

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