Supermarket USA

Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race

Business & Finance, Economics, Economic History, Industries & Professions, Industries, Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century
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Author: Shane Hamilton ISBN: 9780300240849
Publisher: Yale University Press Publication: September 18, 2018
Imprint: Yale University Press Language: English
Author: Shane Hamilton
ISBN: 9780300240849
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication: September 18, 2018
Imprint: Yale University Press
Language: English

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 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.
 
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.

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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 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.
 
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.

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