Shane Hamilton: 2 books

Book cover of Trucking Country

Trucking Country

The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy

by Shane Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008

Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class populist...
Book cover of Supermarket USA

Supermarket USA

Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race

by Shane Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018

America fought the Cold War in part through supermarkets—and the food economy pioneered then has helped shape the way we eat today 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...
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