Chocolate, Women and Empire - A Social and Cultural History

Informationen zum Autor Emma Robertson is Lecturer in History at Sheffield Hallam University Klappentext Provides an original and challenging perspective on the history of chocolate, questioning the romantic images of the commodity offered in marketing campaigns. It weaves together a variety of previously unexamined sources including oral histories of women workers, advertising material from the Rowntree and Cadbury companies and archival material. Zusammenfassung Provides an original and challenging perspective on the history of chocolate! questioning the romantic images of the commodity offered in marketing campaigns. It weaves together a variety of previously unexamined sources including oral histories of women workers! advertising material from the Rowntree and Cadbury companies and archival material. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editor's introductionIntroduction1. 'A deep physical reason': gender, race and the nation in chocolate consumption 2. 'The Romance of the Cocoa Bean': imperial and colonial histories 3. 'There is no operation involved with cocoa that I didn't do': women's experiences of cocoa farming 4. Minstrels, missionaries and the Minster: race, imperialism and the historic city 5. 'I think I was the only Chinese girl working there': race and gender in the chocolate factoryConclusionBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Emma Robertson
• Assisted by: John M. Mackenzie (Editor), Andrew Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2013
• EAN: 9780719090059
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9005-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Studies in Imperialism; Studies in Imperialism (Paperb; Studies in Imperialism; Studies in Imperialism (Paperb
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous