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book cover of Empire of Cotton - A Global History

Top Ten Origins: Summer 2018 Must Reads

… the 1991 fire resulted from many Americans’ desire to make food cheap without regard for the well-being of the people who create that food. He is an incredible storyteller, and the book ties … of late twentieth century U.S. history: the growth of fast food (including Chicken McNuggets), the decline of unions, …
Tanks rolling off a German assembly line in 1943

The Nature of World War II

… alone. In subsequent days, other supplies would follow: food, fuel, ammunition, spare parts, medicine, maps, … industries or companies that support them, eat processed food from fertilizer-fed fields (and cover left-overs in …

Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya

… has long fed Nairobi with staple commodities and prepared foods, particularly in the 1990s, but they stood in the way … countries, Kenya is no longer self-sufficient in terms of food production. The World Bank's focus on exports intended … debts has left many farmers dependent on cash-bought food, and damaged Kenya's already weak governmental …
 Monte Albán

A Postcard From Oaxaca, Mexico

… chorizo.  Oaxaca n cuisine was the first endemic Mexican food to syncretize with Spanish food. Oaxaca  cheese is an adapted form of mozzarella. …

Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth

… a cutaway view of an underground habitat area for growing food ( left ). A fictional Mars tourism poster commissioned … project demonstrated that a habitat could successfully use food crops and other plants to uphold the exchange of oxygen … saturated environments, suggesting they could be the food of the future as climate change intensifies. Even the …
Two women in black hijab in Yemen

Yemen: Inside The Forgotten War

… has introduced increased deprivation in terms of access to food and fuel. When you have conflict with these key ports, it's not that they don't have access to food, but it's distributing food, humanitarian aid, fuel, etc. You have all these …
President Bill Clinton addressing a high school in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999.

The Politics of Compassion

… establish minimum wages, subsidize school lunches, develop food stamps, extend public housing, create medical care for …
Malawi

A Postcard from Livingstonia, Malawi

… in Livingstonia occurs at a small market. Traders sell food and other groceries, not luxuries, and barbershops do a … Malawi. In the Livingstonia region, the staple food of the people in is nsima, a hard porridge eaten with …
Stamp commemorating revolution in Iraq

Iraq's 1920 Revolution

… tightened their grip on the country's irrigation system, food distribution network, labor conscription mechanisms, …
A KFC in Hanoi, Vietnam

Kentucky Fried Globalization

… like reports that appeared whenever a new American fast food chain gained its first foothold in China. Once again, …
View of the Solovetskii Monastery.

A Postcard from Solovki

… existence of unremitting toil and prayer, where sleep and food were considered weaknesses of the flesh.” What indeed? … forms of work (logging in particular) with insufficient food and clothing and broken, inappropriate tools. On …
penguin standing on sand at a beach with a plant and ocean behind it

Early Encounters with Penguins

… actually have longer-term relationships with the birds as food, as fuel, but also as diversion and entertainment. And … longer than penguins. But penguins were a staple source of food for Southern seafaring people. Whether that is Arctic … becomes a place where penguins are slaughtered, not just as food for the people who are the whaling crews who are based …