Food and Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23622016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jayeeta Sharma (University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 241-257 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Oxford handbook of food history (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199729937.013.0014 |
| OpenAlex | W2732196695 |
| ISBN | 9780199729937 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
Between 1926 and 1933, the Empire Marketing Board used a myriad of advertisements, posters, exhibits, and films to promote the empire's food products to British homes. The publicity campaigns were intended to show that tea from India or fruit from Australia was not foreign, but also British. Whether the Board was successful in its bid to promote intra-imperial food consumption, indeed, whether those efforts were needed in the first place, was not clear. This article focuses on foods from Asia and America that were originally thought to be exotic in Europe, initially served as indicators of elite status, and their gradual dissemination downwards. It also examines the role of long-distance trade and modern technologies in the production and distribution of new agro-industrial foods across networks of imperial knowledge and commodity circulation. The article concludes by assessing the impact of global food corporations' domination in the contemporary era, which in many ways can be seen as the equivalent of the European and American empire of the past.
Business · Commodity · Consumption (sociology) · Economics · Economy · Elite · Empire · Political science · Publicity · Social science · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Law · Marketing
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |