Organic Resistance

The Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Postwar France

Venus Bivar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2018
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-4118-8 (ISBN)

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France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays French farmers as hard-nosed businessmen preoccupied with global trade and mass production. With a twin focus on both the rise of big agriculture and the organic movement, Bivar examines the tumult of postwar rural France, a place fiercely engaged with crucial national and global developments.

Delving into the intersecting narratives of economic modernization, the birth of organic farming, the development of a strong agricultural protest movement, and the rise of environmentalism, Bivar reveals a movement as preoccupied with maintaining the purity of the French race as of French food. What emerges is a story of how French farming conquered the world, bringing with it a set of ideas about place and purity with a darker origin story than we might have guessed.

Venus Bivar is assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.03.2018
Reihe/Serie	Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
Zusatzinfo	16 halftones, 1 map
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 233 mm
Gewicht	388 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-4696-4118-6 / 1469641186
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-4118-8 / 9781469641188
Zustand	Neuware