Helen Zoe Veit
Biographic Data
| ID | 1047237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Zoe Veit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen Zoe |
| FAMILY NAME | Veit |
| SIGNATURE | VEIT H Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fed Like So Many Pigs
When former slaves wrote narratives of their lives, they frequently dwelt on the food that they had eaten-or not eaten-in childhood. Far from an occasional subject, food is frequently mentioned in the narratives written by former slaves looking back at all stages of their lives, in large part because so many slaves in antebellum America often went hungry. Like enslaved people of all ages, children could be ingenious in their pursuit of extra food…
Jonathan Rees. The Chemistry of Fear
Journal Article Jonathan Rees. The Chemistry of Fear: Harvey Wiley’s Fight for Pure Food. Get access Jonathan Rees. The Chemistry of Fear: Harvey Wiley’s Fight for Pure Food. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. Pp. 320. $34.95. Helen Zoe Veit Helen Zoe Veit Michigan State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 4, De…
Forum
This forum features a discussion of the What America Ate online archive, an interactive website and database of primary sources related to U.S. foodways during the interwar period, and five short essays written by Old Dominion University graduate students based on research with the archive. The forum emerged out of a decision by Global Food History editors to begin publishing shorter pieces on pedagogical approaches, and on primary source and dig…
World War I and the Origins of the Modern Food System
This forum explores how the demands of World War I shaped industrial food production, state control over distribution, and cultures of food consumption. As the belligerent nations strained to mobilize their full resources, the production of food was arguably as important as munitions, and indeed the two were linked, since the Haber-Bosch process for synthesizing ammonia, invented shortly before the outbreak of the war, was used to make both gunpo…
Food Power
In Food Power Bryan L. McDonald examines the strategic uses of food between the end of World War II and the global food crisis of the early 1970s. American agriculture was booming in this period, with farmers producing ever-larger harvests—and ever-larger surpluses. At the time, agricultural surpluses struck many as a problem because overproduction tamped down farm prices even as consumer food prices stayed stubbornly high. The drive to liquidate…
Modern Food, Moral Food
Journal Article Modern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century Get access By Helen Zoe Veit. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. xvi, 300 pp. $39.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 3, December 2015, Pages 899–900, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav565 Published: 01 December 2015
Jonathan Rees. Refrigeration Nation
Producing heat is simple, but for centuries, people could only dream of producing cold. As Jonathan Rees writes, “cold does not exist: it is simply the absence of heat” (p. 1). And thus the history of refrigeration is a history of how people figured out how to remove heat, and keep removing it, from a given space. Our growing competence at doing so, and the social effects of the technologies that resulted, are the subject of this well-written, th…
"Why Do People Die?" Rising Life Expectancy, Aging, and Personal Responsibility
This article focuses on the unprecedented jump in life expectancy that occurred in the first third of the twentieth century and the corresponding revolution in Americans' attitudes toward aging and death. Rising life expectancy had many causes, including better nutrition, a reduction in epidemic diseases through vaccinations and modern sanitation measures, and successful educational campaigns aimed at reducing infant mortality. Despite the broad,…
Self-Interested Altruism and Modern Food Aid
Few issues are as symbolic or as complicated as modern food aid, combining as it does a fundamental humanitarian act with calculated self-interest. These complications, moral as well as strategic, are a central focus of Kristin Ahlberg's Transplanting the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace, which examines the evolving nature of U.S. food aid throughout Johnson's administration. Ahlberg notes several times that “self-interest and alt…
We Were a Soft People”
When the United States entered the First World War in 1917, food supplies seemed vitally important to winning what had become a contest of endurance on and off the battlefield. Woodrow Wilson created the United States Food Administration, a powerful wartime agency charged with exporting as much American food as possible to western European allies and neutrals. While official food administration policy urged Americans to eat plenty, as long as the…
Modern Food, Moral Food
Journal Article Modern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century Get access By Helen Zoe Veit. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. xvi, 300 pp. $39.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 3, December 2015, Pages 899–900, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav565 Published: 01 December 2015
"Why Do People Die?" Rising Life Expectancy, Aging, and Personal Responsibility
This article focuses on the unprecedented jump in life expectancy that occurred in the first third of the twentieth century and the corresponding revolution in Americans' attitudes toward aging and death. Rising life expectancy had many causes, including better nutrition, a reduction in epidemic diseases through vaccinations and modern sanitation measures, and successful educational campaigns aimed at reducing infant mortality. Despite the broad,…
World War I and the Origins of the Modern Food System
This forum explores how the demands of World War I shaped industrial food production, state control over distribution, and cultures of food consumption. As the belligerent nations strained to mobilize their full resources, the production of food was arguably as important as munitions, and indeed the two were linked, since the Haber-Bosch process for synthesizing ammonia, invented shortly before the outbreak of the war, was used to make both gunpo…
We Were a Soft People”
When the United States entered the First World War in 1917, food supplies seemed vitally important to winning what had become a contest of endurance on and off the battlefield. Woodrow Wilson created the United States Food Administration, a powerful wartime agency charged with exporting as much American food as possible to western European allies and neutrals. While official food administration policy urged Americans to eat plenty, as long as the…
We Were a Soft People”
When the United States entered the First World War in 1917, food supplies seemed vitally important to winning what had become a contest of endurance on and off the battlefield. Woodrow Wilson created the United States Food Administration, a powerful wartime agency charged with exporting as much American food as possible to western European allies and neutrals. While official food administration policy urged Americans to eat plenty, as long as the…
Self-Interested Altruism and Modern Food Aid
Few issues are as symbolic or as complicated as modern food aid, combining as it does a fundamental humanitarian act with calculated self-interest. These complications, moral as well as strategic, are a central focus of Kristin Ahlberg's Transplanting the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace, which examines the evolving nature of U.S. food aid throughout Johnson's administration. Ahlberg notes several times that “self-interest and alt…
"Why Do People Die?" Rising Life Expectancy, Aging, and Personal Responsibility
This article focuses on the unprecedented jump in life expectancy that occurred in the first third of the twentieth century and the corresponding revolution in Americans' attitudes toward aging and death. Rising life expectancy had many causes, including better nutrition, a reduction in epidemic diseases through vaccinations and modern sanitation measures, and successful educational campaigns aimed at reducing infant mortality. Despite the broad,…
Jonathan Rees. Refrigeration Nation
Producing heat is simple, but for centuries, people could only dream of producing cold. As Jonathan Rees writes, “cold does not exist: it is simply the absence of heat” (p. 1). And thus the history of refrigeration is a history of how people figured out how to remove heat, and keep removing it, from a given space. Our growing competence at doing so, and the social effects of the technologies that resulted, are the subject of this well-written, th…
Modern Food, Moral Food
Journal Article Modern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century Get access By Helen Zoe Veit. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. xvi, 300 pp. $39.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 3, December 2015, Pages 899–900, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav565 Published: 01 December 2015
World War I and the Origins of the Modern Food System
This forum explores how the demands of World War I shaped industrial food production, state control over distribution, and cultures of food consumption. As the belligerent nations strained to mobilize their full resources, the production of food was arguably as important as munitions, and indeed the two were linked, since the Haber-Bosch process for synthesizing ammonia, invented shortly before the outbreak of the war, was used to make both gunpo…
Food Power
In Food Power Bryan L. McDonald examines the strategic uses of food between the end of World War II and the global food crisis of the early 1970s. American agriculture was booming in this period, with farmers producing ever-larger harvests—and ever-larger surpluses. At the time, agricultural surpluses struck many as a problem because overproduction tamped down farm prices even as consumer food prices stayed stubbornly high. The drive to liquidate…
Forum
This forum features a discussion of the What America Ate online archive, an interactive website and database of primary sources related to U.S. foodways during the interwar period, and five short essays written by Old Dominion University graduate students based on research with the archive. The forum emerged out of a decision by Global Food History editors to begin publishing shorter pieces on pedagogical approaches, and on primary source and dig…
Jonathan Rees. The Chemistry of Fear
Journal Article Jonathan Rees. The Chemistry of Fear: Harvey Wiley’s Fight for Pure Food. Get access Jonathan Rees. The Chemistry of Fear: Harvey Wiley’s Fight for Pure Food. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. Pp. 320. $34.95. Helen Zoe Veit Helen Zoe Veit Michigan State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 4, De…
Fed Like So Many Pigs
When former slaves wrote narratives of their lives, they frequently dwelt on the food that they had eaten-or not eaten-in childhood. Far from an occasional subject, food is frequently mentioned in the narratives written by former slaves looking back at all stages of their lives, in large part because so many slaves in antebellum America often went hungry. Like enslaved people of all ages, children could be ingenious in their pursuit of extra food…
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