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A Perishable History

Susanne Freidberg

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$30.00 • £24.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674057227

Publication Date: 10/01/2010

Short

416 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

28 halftones

Belknap Press

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Introduction
1. Refrigeration: Cold Revolution
2. Beef: Mobile Meat
3. Eggs: Shell Games
4. Fruit: Ephemeral Beauty
5. Vegetables: Hidden Labor
6. Milk: Border Politics
7. Fish: Wild Life
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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2010 Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology

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