Organic resistance : the struggle over industrial farming in postwar France /

"The concept of terroir (the unique quality that a particular habitat imparts to food) and practices of organic farming are essential to the image of French food and are assumed to have developed alongside a left-leaning political tradition. However, as Venus Bivar reveals, the origins of organ...

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Main Author: Bivar, Venus (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations in the Text; Introduction. The Human Cost of Creative Destruction; Chapter One. The Industrial Ideal, 1944-1958; Chapter Two. Alternative Ideals, 1944-1958; Chapter Three. Operating at Full Tilt, 1958-1968; Chapter Four. Tilting at the Windmills of Modernization, 1958-1968; Chapter Five. Greening the Mainstream, 1968-1980; Conclusion. Slipping through the Cracks; Notes; Bibliography; Index