Food and Power in U.S. History Book Review

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Humanities

Choose one of the books below, read it in full, and write a brief book review (500 words). A good book review should be a thoughtful and engaging critique that includes a brief overview of the book’s argument and contents followed by an analysis of how successful the author was at arguing his/her point. Is the book readable? What kinds of sources does the author use? How did the sources affect the kind of history they wrote and the argument they made? Focus on the challenge of tightly writing the review so that you can contain all of the information in just 500 words.

  • Bartow Elmore, Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism(2014)
  • Kendra Smith-Howard, Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900(2014, 2017)
  • William Thomas Okie, The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South (2016)
  • Angela Zeide, Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry(2018)

I do not have a digital copy of the books only hard copies which I may be able to send you a couple of chapters if absolutely needed, you may have to find other reviews on the book online or excerpts from the book on google, I do not care which book you choose but please let me know once you’ve made a decision, this will be turned in through a plagiarism assignment website called turnitin, so please DO NOT PLAGIARIZE!!!