| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
California studies in food and culture ; 37
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California studies in food and culture ; 37.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I The Rise -- 1. Angling for a Big Fish -- 2. Looks Like Chicken -- 3. Enemy Aliens -- 4. This Delicious Fish -- 5. Caucasians Who Have Tasted and Liked This Speciality -- Part II he Fall -- 6. Foreign Tuna -- 7. Tuna Wars -- 8. Porpoise Fishing -- 9. Parts Per Million -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
In a lively account of the American tuna industry over the past century, celebrated food writer and scholar Andrew F. Smith relates how tuna went from being sold primarily as a fertilizer to becoming the most commonly consumed fish in the country. In American Tuna, the so-called "chicken of the sea" is both the subject and the backdrop for other facets of American history: U.S. foreign policy, immigration and environmental politics, and dietary trends. Smith recounts how tuna became a popular low-cost high-protein food beginning in 1903, when the first can rolled off the assembly line. By 1918. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tuna -- United States -- History.
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Tuna. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Canned tuna -- United States -- History.
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Canned tuna. |
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Cooking (Tuna)
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Cooking (Tuna) |
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Fish as food -- United States -- History.
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Fish as food. |
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Tuna fisheries -- Environmental aspects -- History.
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Tuna fisheries -- Environmental aspects. |
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Tuna fisheries. |
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Tuna fisheries -- History.
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Tuna industry -- History.
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Tuna industry. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books -- Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Andrew F., 1946- American tuna. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 9780520261846 (DLC) 2012000822 (OCoLC)773278527 |
| ISBN |
9780520954151 (electronic book) |
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0520954157 (electronic book) |
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9780520261846 (cloth, alkaline paper) |
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0520261844 (cloth, alkaline paper) |
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