Nature's Perfect Food ：How Milk Became America's Drink

Publication subTitle ：How Milk Became America's Drink

Author： Dupuis E. Melanie  

Publisher： NYU Press‎

Publication year： 2002

E-ISBN: 9780814785423

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780814719381

Subject： C91 Sociology;F3 Agricultural Economy;K105 historical events

Keyword： 历史事件,社会学,农业经济

Language： ENG

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Chapter

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I Consumption

1 Why Milk?

2 The Perfect Food Story

3 Why Not Mother? The Rise of Cow’s Milk as Infant Food in Nineteenth-Century America

4 The Milk Question: Perfecting Food as Urban Reform

5 Perfect Food, Perfect Bodies

Part II Production

6 Perfect Farming: The Industrial Vision of Dairying

7 The Less Perfect Story: Diversity and Farming Strategies

8 Crisis: The “Border-Line” Problem

9 Alternative Visions of Dairying: Productivism and Producerism in New York, Wisconsin, and California

10 The End of Perfection

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

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