{"product_id":"supermarket-usa-shane-hamilton-9780300232691","title":"Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race","description":"\u003cb\u003eAmerica fought the Cold War in part through supermarkets--and the food economy pioneered then has helped shape the way we eat today\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 our current food system. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The widespread appeal of supermarkets as weapons of free enterprise contributed to a \"farms race\" between the United States and the Soviet Union, as the superpowers vied to show that their contrasting approaches to food production and distribution were best suited to an abundant future. In the aftermath of the Cold War, U.S. food power was transformed into a global system of market power, laying the groundwork for the emergence of our contemporary world, in which transnational supermarkets operate as powerful institutions in a global food economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shane Hamilton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300232691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300232691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2019","brand":"Shane Hamilton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44076008440063,"sku":"9780300232691","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8558eeb0-5412-41ba-ab6d-6315c00b1abb.jpg?v=1685462663","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/supermarket-usa-shane-hamilton-9780300232691","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}