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SOCL 4252: Food in American History and Culture

Interdisciplinary exploration of what food means to Americans by examining food writing, history, production, and consumption.

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Internet Resources on Agriculture in the United States

American Farmland Trust
This non-profit organization works to prevent the loss of farmland to development, climate change, and poor farming practices.
FDA: Agricultural Biotechnology
Information on genetically engineered foods, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Food
Information on food safety regulation in the United States.
History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860
This classic study by Lewis Cecil Gray was published in 1933.
USDA: Data Products
Reports and statistics on all aspects of U.S. agriculture.
USDA: Economic Research Service (ERS)
Provides crop outlooks, statistical data, farming news, and Food Atlases.
USDA: National Agricultural Library Digital Collections
Offers access to full-text historical documents in the agricultural and food sciences.

E-books on Agriculture in the United States

American Farms, American Food: A Geography of Agriculture and Food Production in the United States by John C. Hudson; Christopher R. Laingen
Call Number: E-book

ISBN: 9781498508209

Publication Date: 2016-
Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America’s Favorite Food by Steve Striffler
Call Number: E-book

ISBN: 0300123671

Publication Date: 2007-
The Effects of Farm and Food Policy on Obesity in the United States by Julian M. Alston; Abigail M. Okrent
Call Number: E-book

ISBN: 1137486473

Publication Date: 2017
Food, Farms, and Community: Exploring Food Systems by Lisa Chase; Vern Grubinger
Call Number: E-book

ISBN: 1611684218

Publication Date: 2014-
Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America by Wenonah Hauter
Call Number: E-book

ISBN: 159558790X

Publication Date: 2012
The Food Sharing Revolution: How Start-Ups, Pop-Ups, and Co-Ops are Changing the Way We Eat by Michael S. Carolan
Call Number: E-book

ISBN: 161091886X

Publication Date: 2018
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States by Seth M. Holmes; Philippe Bourgois (Foreword by)
Call Number: E-book

ISBN: 0520275144

Publication Date: 2013
Milk Money: Cash, Cows, and the Death of the American Dairy Farm by Kirk Kardashian; Bernie Sanders (Foreword by)
Call Number: E-book

ISBN: 1611680271

Publication Date: 2012
Pigs, Pork, and Heartland Hogs: From Wild Boar to Baconfest by Cynthia Clampitt
Call Number: E-book

ISBN: 1538110741

Publication Date: 2018
The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of the World's Food Supply by Marie-Monique Robin
Call Number: E-book

ISBN: 1595584269

Publication Date: 2010

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