TY - BOOK AU - Hamilton,Shane TI - Supermarket USA [electronic resource]: food and power in the cold war farms race / SN - 9780300240849 (eBook) AV - HF5469 .H365 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Supermarkets-Political aspects-United States N2 - This cultural history examines the global rise of American-style supermarkets during the Cold War era and how they shaped the way we eat today. Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American-style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist weapons during the Cold War, and how their proliferation has shaped our current food system UR - https://login.aud.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/audubai/detail.action?docID=5508350 ER -