Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors in the Post-Katrina Era
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Central American and Mexican immigrants arrived in New Orleans to help clean up and rebuild. When federal relief services overlooked the needs of immigrant-led construction and cleanup crews as part of post-Katrina mass feeding strategies, street food stands and taco trucks stepped in to ensure food security ......
North Americans love eating meat. Despite the increased awareness of the meat industry's harms-violence against animals, health problems, and associations with environmental degradation-the rate of meat eating hasn't changed significantly in recent years. Instead, what has emerged is an uncomfortable paradox: a need to square one's values with the ......
North Americans love eating meat. Despite the increased awareness of the meat industry's harms-violence against animals, health problems, and associations with environmental degradation-the rate of meat eating hasn't changed significantly in recent years. Instead, what has emerged is an uncomfortable paradox: a need to square one's values with the ......
A deeply researched and clearly argued account of the mutual growth of the federal government and the modern tobacco Nearly everything about the United States tobacco economy changed in the generation following the American Civil War. From labor to consumption, manufacturing to regulation, tobacco was utterly reconstructed, "comparatively a ......
A deeply researched and clearly argued account of the mutual growth of the federal government and the modern tobacco Nearly everything about the United States tobacco economy changed in the generation following the American Civil War. From labor to consumption, manufacturing to regulation, tobacco was utterly reconstructed, "comparatively a ......
Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya's Port City
A case study on how urban capitalism created a new working-class food system in the port city of Mombasa during the twentieth century Preparing the Modern Meal is an urban history that connects town and country. Devin Smart examines how labor migrants who left subsistence food systems in Kenya's rural communities acquired their daily meals when ......
The centrality of food to the human experience always places it at the crux of global crises, whether catastrophic climate change, the collapse of biodiversity in our shared ecosystem, the threat of pandemics, or the poverty and suffering associated with resource scarcity. The continual reality of these challenges has prompted professionals ......
Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya's Port City
A case study on how urban capitalism created a new working-class food system in the port city of Mombasa during the twentieth century Preparing the Modern Meal is an urban history that connects town and country. Devin Smart examines how labor migrants who left subsistence food systems in Kenya's rural communities acquired their daily meals when ......
Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt
In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and capital were seen as the main threat, over time large landowners and their imperial allies were targeted as the principal obstacles to the country's ......
