Chewing Gum

Informationen zum Autor Michael Redclift , a leading scholar in ecology and social theory, is a professor of geography at King's College, London. He is author or editor of fifteen books, including Sustainable Development and Wasted . Klappentext In Chewing Gum! Michael Redclift deftly chronicles the growing popularity of gum in the U.S. alongside a fascinating history of peasant revolution led by charismatic Indians in the jungles of southern Mexico. Zusammenfassung Vivid and absorbing, Chewing Gum is at once an American cultural history and an emblematic cautionary tale about the how the resources that fuel modern pleasures often come from scenes of violence, chaos, and oppression. Inhaltsverzeichnis (1) Introduction (2) The 'American Invention' (3) Chicle and Social Revolution in Yucatan (4) A Way of Life (5) Bubblegum Cultures (6) Mass Consumption and Popular Taste (7) What it left behind...

Product details

• Authors: Michael Redclift
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.06.2004
• EAN: 9780415944182
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94418-2
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Guides > Food & drink; USA, COOKING / General, HISTORY / United States / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, Cookery / food & drink etc, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Manufacturing industries, Food Manufacturing & Related Industries, Cookery / food and drink / food writing / cookbooks