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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, …

Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis

… shortage, with world rice prices doubling and violent food protests erupting across the globe. Pastoral livestock … Australia's 22 or so million people could produce enough food for 70 million people—and food exports became a cornerstone of the economy. The Snowy …

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 …
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 …
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 …