Amrys O Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 1158236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amrys O Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amrys |
| FAMILY NAME | O Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS A O |
| AFFILIATIONS | independent scholar |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Supermarket USA
Reviewed by: Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race by Shane Hamilton Amrys O. Williams (bio) Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race By Shane Hamilton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. 288. The American supermarket has come to symbolize many things: abundance, consumer choice, industrial efficiency, and free enterprise. In Supermarket USA, Shane Hamilton uses the supermarket to investigate the in…
Magic Bean
In this timely book, Matthew Roth weaves together the histories of soy as plant, agricultural commodity, food, industrial component, cultural touchstone, and entrepreneur’s dream in an engaging narrative that will appeal to historians of food, agriculture, business, the environment, science and technology, and the twentieth-century United States. The book’s strength derives from the diverse cast of characters Roth traces across the twentieth cent…
Organic Struggle
Reviewed by: Organic Struggle: The Movement for Sustainable Agriculture in the United States by Brian K. Obach Amrys O. Williams (bio) Organic Struggle: The Movement for Sustainable Agriculture in the United States. By Brian K. Obach. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015. Pp. 327. $32. The growth of organic food has been one of the signature changes in American agriculture in recent decades. Brian Obach has made a valuable contribution with this explor…
Food
FOOD: Transforming the American Table, 1950–2000:National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Amrys O. Williams (bio) From farmers’ markets to the Food Network, from the emergence of Michael Pollan as a household name to the proliferation of food studies programs, publications, and standing-room-only conference sessions, popular and scholarly interest in food appears insatiable. It is fitting, then, that food is …
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Food
FOOD: Transforming the American Table, 1950–2000:National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Amrys O. Williams (bio) From farmers’ markets to the Food Network, from the emergence of Michael Pollan as a household name to the proliferation of food studies programs, publications, and standing-room-only conference sessions, popular and scholarly interest in food appears insatiable. It is fitting, then, that food is …
Organic Struggle
Reviewed by: Organic Struggle: The Movement for Sustainable Agriculture in the United States by Brian K. Obach Amrys O. Williams (bio) Organic Struggle: The Movement for Sustainable Agriculture in the United States. By Brian K. Obach. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015. Pp. 327. $32. The growth of organic food has been one of the signature changes in American agriculture in recent decades. Brian Obach has made a valuable contribution with this explor…
Magic Bean
In this timely book, Matthew Roth weaves together the histories of soy as plant, agricultural commodity, food, industrial component, cultural touchstone, and entrepreneur’s dream in an engaging narrative that will appeal to historians of food, agriculture, business, the environment, science and technology, and the twentieth-century United States. The book’s strength derives from the diverse cast of characters Roth traces across the twentieth cent…
Supermarket USA
Reviewed by: Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race by Shane Hamilton Amrys O. Williams (bio) Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race By Shane Hamilton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. 288. The American supermarket has come to symbolize many things: abundance, consumer choice, industrial efficiency, and free enterprise. In Supermarket USA, Shane Hamilton uses the supermarket to investigate the in…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · History of Science and Medicine (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Politics (2 works)