| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
California studies in food and culture
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California studies in food and culture ; 48.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 The Problem of Food; 2 Factories, Railroads, and Rotary Eggbeaters: From Farm to Table; 3 Food and Cooking in the City; 4 Between Country and City: Food in Rural Mill Towns and Company Towns; 5 "A Woman's Work Is Never Done": Cooking, Class, and Women's Work; 6 What's for Dinner Tonight?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; W. |
| Summary |
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neighborhoods, and the tools, utilities, and size of their kitchens-along with their cultural heritage. How the Other Half Ate is a deep exploration by historian and lecturer Katherine Turner that delivers an unprecedented and thoroughly researched study of the changing food landscape in American working-class families from industrialization through the 1950s. Relevant to readers across a range of disciplines-history, economics, sociology, urban studies, |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-197) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Food habits -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Food habits. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Food habits -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Working class -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Working class. |
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Social conditions. |
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Working class -- United States -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Working class -- United States -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Turner, Katherine Leonard. How the other half ate. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014] 9780520277571 (DLC) 2013029503 (OCoLC)885311489 |
| ISBN |
1306168260 (electronic book) |
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9781306168267 (electronic book) |
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9780520957619 (electronic book) |
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052095761X (electronic book) |
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9780520277571 (cloth) |
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9780520277588 (paperback) |
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