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Food in America

The Past, Present, and Future of Food, Farming,
and the Family Meal
3 VOLUMES | ANDREW F. SMITH

Americans are constantly besieged by conflicting messages about food, the environment,
and health and nutrition. Are foods with genetically modified ingredients safe?
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Are concentrated animal feed operations destroying the environment? Should food
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FEATURES

• Examines a breadth of contemporary food controversies and offers diverse viewpoints ANDREW F. SMITH has taught food
on them, placing these perspectives fairly into a broader historical context studies courses at the New School
University in Manhattan for the past
• Presents a multidisciplinary approach to the subject of food that highlights related 20 years. He currently teaches
issues in transportation, business, diet and nutrition, public health, the environment, courses in American food history, food
and public policy controversies, and professional food
• Includes primary documents that illuminate important laws, policies, and perspectives writing.
on the environmental, public health, and economic impact of food

Gun Politics in America

Historical and Modern Documents in Context

2 VOLUMES | HARRY L. WILSON

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A superb primer. This well-organized set will provide readers and

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Offering the most complete collection of primary documents on the subject of guns
and gun politics, this two-volume set will give readers a comprehensive, unbiased HARRY L. WILSON is director of
understanding of the complex and often-surprising evolution of gun ownership, gun the Institute for Policy and Opinion
culture, and gun politics in the United States. This fascinating history is examined through Research and professor of political
approximately 150 primary source documents from the Colonial era to the present day. science at Roanoke College, Salem, VA.
Each section opens with an informative headnote that provides important context for
understanding the social and political milieu in which the document was created.

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