Harvey Levenstein

Biographic Data

ID533597
NAMEHarvey Levenstein
GIVEN NAMESHarvey
FAMILY NAMELevenstein
SIGNATURELEVENSTEIN H
AFFILIATIONSMcMaster University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS42
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX4

  • Wilson J. Warren. Meat Makes People Powerful: A Global History of the Modern Era

    Open AccessHarvey LevensteinARTICLEThe American Historical Review2020

    The title of Wilson J. Warren’s book Meat Makes People Powerful: A Global History of the Modern Era, which seems to promise a global history of the idea that eating meat makes one powerful, is quite misleading. That idea actually plays a very minor role in the book, as part of the larger belief that eating meat leads to good health. Moreover, the promise of a “global history” is considerably overstated. Most of it deals with Western Europe and it…

  • Snacks: A Canadian Food History by Janis Thiessen

    Harvey LevensteinARTICLEHistoire sociale2018

    Reviewed by: Snacks: A Canadian Food History by Janis Thiessen Harvey Levenstein Thiessen, Janis – Snacks: A Canadian Food History. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2017. Pp. 344. It is refreshing to find a book about snack foods that does not join the chorus of denunciations about how they are "junk food" wreaking havoc on our health. In the introduction to her book, Janis Thiessen cites approvingly the small band of food writers who are …

  • Taste of the Nation: The New Deal Search for America's Food

    Harvey LevensteinARTICLEJournal of American History2017

    Some years ago, while researching a history of American food in the Library of Congress, I came across “America Eats,” a long-neglected collection of unpublished writings commissioned by the Federal Writers Project (FWP) in the late 1930s. At first I thought I had struck gold: a series of descriptions of American food habits during the depression produced by writers from all parts of the country. Alas, I was soon disappointed. The collection cons…

  • Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation

    Harvey LevensteinARTICLEJournal of American History2006Cited by: 1

    One hundred years ago Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle (1906) to arouse public opinion about the awful working conditions in the nation's slaughterhouses. Instead, it created a storm over the quality of the products that emerged from them and led to regulation of the plants' sanitary conditions. (He is reputed to have said, ruefully, “I aimed for America's heart, but I hit its stomach.”) Roger Horowitz's interesting history of the meat processing …

  • Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States, by Cindy Aron

    Open AccessHarvey LevensteinARTICLEJournal of History2001

    "Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States, by Cindy Aron." Canadian Journal of History, 36(2), pp. 385–386

  • Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima

    Harvey Levenstein, M M ManringARTICLELabour / Le Travail2000Cited by: 10

    In Slave in a Box, M. M. Manring investigates why the troubling figure of Aunt Jemima has endured in American culture. The author traces the evolution of the mammy from her roots in Old South slave reality and mythology, through reinterpretations during Reconstruction and in minstrel shows and turn-of-the-century advertisements, to Aunt Jemima's symbolic role in the Civil Rights movement and her present incarnation as a 'working grandmother.' The…

  • Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age

    Jacques Portes, Harvey LevensteinARTICLEJournal of American History1999Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age. By Harvey Levenstein. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi, 378 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-226-47376-7.) Get access Jacques Portes Jacques Portes University of Paris VIII Saint Denis, France Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 817–818, https:/…

  • Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past (review)

    Harvey Levenstein, Harvey A LevensteinARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1997

    Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 71, Number 3, Fall 1997

  • Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture

    Harvey Levenstein, Rima D AppleARTICLEJournal of American History1997

    Journal Article Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture. By Rima D. Apple. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996. xiv, 245 pp. Cloth, $48.00, ISBN 0-8135-2277-3. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8135-2278-1.) Get access Harvey Levenstein Harvey Levenstein McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1094–1095, http…

  • Saltwater Foodways: New Englanders and Their Food at Sea and Ashore in the Nineteenth Century

    Harvey Levenstein, Sandra L OliverARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1996

  • American Gastro-Anomie

    Amy Bentley, Amy R Bentley et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1994

  • Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America

    Kay Mussell, Harvey LevensteinREVIEWJournal of American History1994Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America. By Harvey Levenstein. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xii, 337 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-19-505543-8.) Get access Kay Mussell Kay Mussell American University, Washington, D.C Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 322–323, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081119 Published: …

  • The Uncertainty of Everyday Life, 1915-1945

    Harvey Levenstein, Harvey GreenARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1993

    The era between the world wars, from the roaring 20s to the grim days of the Great Depression, was a time of tremendous change. The United States became an increasingly urban culture as people left their farms to seek work in the cities. Many blacks moved North to escape the violence and racism of a resurgent Ku Klux Klan in the South. And, while life became more comfortable for many Americans during this period, by 1941 only half the population …

  • Dietary Modernization

    Warren Belasco, Warren J Belasco et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1990

  • Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet

    James Harvey Young, Harvey Levenstein et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1990

  • Revolution at the Table

    Derek J Oddy, Harvey Levenstein et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review1990

  • Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease

    Harvey Levenstein, Harvey A Levenstein et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1989Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease. By Joan Jacobs Brumberg. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. x + 366 pp. $25.00.) Get access Harvey A. Levenstein Harvey A. Levenstein McMaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1295–1296, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908656 Published: 01 Marc…

  • Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet

    James T Patterson, Harvey LevensteinARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1988

  • The « Servant Problem » and American Cookery

    Harvey LevensteinARTICLERevue française d’études…1986

    In the late 1880's, the rising American middle-class, trying to follow the social lead of the new urban industrial and commercial elite, had to face the difficulty of finding qualified servants, able to meet their employers' requirements and social purposes. Some of them tried to set up servant-training programs, some others to organize cooperative kitchens, or to build blocks of kitchenless apartments with central kitchens. Such experiments fail…

  • The American response to Italian food, 1880–1930

    Harvey LevensteinARTICLEFood and Foodways1985Cited by: 12References: 1

    One can hardly pick up a woman’s magazine, daily newspaper, or even the Wall Street Journal without being confronted by yet another article on the “ethnic” invasion of American food habits. From the redwood beach houses of the West Coast to the glittering high rises of Manhattan’s East Side, taramasalata, hummus, aioli, and Chinese shrimp toast have pushed onion and sour-cream dips from the hors d’oeuvres tray. Dishes that are rejected by all but…

  • Best for Babies" or "Preventable Infanticide"? The Controversy over Artificial Feeding of Infants in America, 1880-1920

    Harvey LevensteinARTICLEJournal of American History1983Cited by: 5

    Journal Article "Best for Babies" or "Preventable Infanticide"? The Controversy over Artificial Feeding of Infants in America, 1880–1920 Get access Harvey Levenstein Harvey Levenstein professor of history McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 1, June 1983, Pages 75–94, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890522 Published: 01 June 1983

  • Philadelphia Communists, 1936-1956

    Harvey Levenstein, Paul LyonsARTICLEJournal of American History1983Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Philadelphia Communists, 1936–1956. By Paul Lyons. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982. xii + 244 pp. Map, table, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $22.50.) Get access Harvey Levenstein Harvey Levenstein McMaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Page 1025, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901279 Published: 01 March…

  • Nobody Here but Us Trade Unionists: Communism and the CIO

    Robert H Zieger, Harvey Levenstein et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1982

  • Communism, Anticommunism, and the CIO

    Ronald W Schatz, Harvey Levenstein et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1982Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Communism, Anticommunism, and the CIO. By Harvey A. Levenstein. (Westport: Greenwood, 1981. xii + 364 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.) Get access Ronald W. Schatz Ronald W. Schatz Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 2, September 1982, Pages 492–493, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893904 Published: 01 September 1982

  • The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Unions

    Harvey Levenstein, Roger KeeranARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1982