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HST 4870/6870: Global Food: Background
Get context, background information, and a good bibliography on your chosen food.
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Cambridge World History of FoodA reference book on the history of food and nutrition. Covers the spectrum of foods; their nutritional makeup and uses; and their impact on cultures and demography.
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Encyclopedia of Food and CultureGreat global coverage.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in AmericaObviously, it focuses on the US, but it is fine for brief, non-scientific background and decent bibliographies.
Books: Catalog Search
Articles: Databases Search
Start with the databases listed below
You may want to combine the first two databases and seach them simultaneously, as food traveled back and forth among many countries and continents. You can limit by historical time period.
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America: History & LifeA comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Use with Historical Abstracts. Full-text may be available via Find-It.
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Historical AbstractsIndexes journals, books and dissertations on world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Use with America History and Life. Full-text may be available via Find-It.
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JSTORJSTOR contains the complete digitized backfile of core scholarly journals from a broad range of academic disciplines.
Published Primary Sources
Here are potential primary sources.
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American PeriodicalsContains page images of historic American magazines, journals and newspapers. These resources illustrate the development of American culture, politics and society from the mid-eighteenth century through 1900.
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Afro-Americana Imprints 1535-1922An important collection of Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922 useful to African-American studies. Includes a wide range of archival materials including books, pamphlets and broadsides. Coverage includes the West's discovery and exploitation of Africa; the rise of slavery in the New World; the growth and success of abolitionist movements; the development of racial thought and racism; and descriptions of African American life -- slave and free.
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Historical New York TimesThe Historical NYT is an online digital reproduction of the New York Times, including photographs and advertisements.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)Read from this online archive of digitized versions of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom from 1701-1800. The collection includes books, pamphlets, broadsides and ephemera covering a broad range of subjects across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
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HarpWeek (1857-1871)Read the full-text of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912), the leading American illustrated magazine of the period. Covers political, military, social and cultural issues. Search by section: subjects, illustrations, literature, and advertising.
Food Data
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAOSTATThe Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. This is their data page.
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World Bank Historical Agriculture MapYou can find data for agricultural land, land under cereal production, and forest area. The map covers from 1961 to 2016.
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Food Security - FAOThe site provides data on global food security.
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40 maps that explain food in America40 maps, charts, and graphs that show where our food comes from and how we eat it, with some drinking thrown in for good measure.
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USDA Food Access Research AtlasLocate food accessibility issues by location and type of service.
