Pure adulteration cheating on nature in the age of manufactured food / Benjamin R. Cohen.

Author/creator Cohen, Benjamin R.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2019]
Descriptionxv, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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Subjects

Contents The appearance of being earnest -- The culture of adulteration -- Surfaces and interiors -- Household, grocer, and trust -- The geography of adulteration -- Margarine in a dairy world -- Oil without olives and lard without hogs -- Glucose in the empire of sugar -- The analysis of adulteration -- Analysis as border patrol -- Food and the government chemist -- Epilogue: the persistence of adulteration.
General note"A number of maps included throughout this book refer readers to https://purefood.lafayette.edu/. The maps included here are static versions of a larger series of dynamic maps tracing changes in various features of the three main cases in this book between the 1870s and 1910s. Readers should refer to that site for further maps and images from the book."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 283-302) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2019017188
ISBN9780226377926 (cloth ; alk. paper)
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