How the Other Half Ate : A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century /

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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 histo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turner, Katherine Leonard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working class > Social life and customs.
Working class > Social conditions.
Working class > Economic conditions.
Food habits.
COOKING > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Travailleurs > États-Unis > Conditions economiques.
Travailleurs > États-Unis > Moeurs et coutumes.
Travailleurs > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Habitudes alimentaires > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Habitudes alimentaires > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Working class > United States > Economic conditions.
Working class > United States > Social life and customs.
Working class > United States > Social conditions.
Food habits > United States > History > 20th century.
Food habits > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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,
Physical Description:1 online resource (218 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780520957619

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