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Nature's perfect food : how milk became America's drink
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- Creator
- E. Melanie DuPuis
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : New York University Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780814719374, 0814719376, 9780814719381, 0814719384
- OCLC
- ocm47718107
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-296).
- pt. 1. Consumption -- 1. Why milk -- 2. The perfect food story -- 3. Why not mother : the rise of cow's milk as infant food in nineteenth-century America -- 4. The milk question : perfecting food as urban reform -- 5. Perfect food, perfect bodies -- pt. 2. Production -- 6. Perfect farming : the industrial vision of dairying -- 7. The less perfect story : diversity and farming strategies -- 8. Crisis : the "border-line" problem -- 9. Alternative visions of dairying : productivism and producerism in New York, Wisconsin, and California -- 10. The end of perfection
Subjects
- Milk -- History.
- Milk -- Social aspects.
- Dairy products industry -- United States -- History.
- Food habits -- United States -- History.
- Milk -- United States.
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- Feeding Behavior -- United States.
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- Food Industry -- history -- United States.
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