[E&E seminars] MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, FRIDAY, 9-23-2011

[Margo Collett]

MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History 

Shane Hamilton 
University of Georgia 
 

The American Supermarket and the Cold War “Farms Race” 


The supermarket was a key point of contestation in the Cold War era "farms race." From the late 1940s onward, the United States and the Soviet Union vied to demonstrate to the world that their contrasting approaches to industrial agriculture were better suited to providing consumers with food abundance. This "farms race" framed the efforts of key American policymakers and non-governmental organizations, such as Nelson A. Rockefeller's International Basic Economy Corporation, to export the American supermarket and its attendant system of capitalist industrial agriculture as a means of waging an economic and propaganda war against socialism. 

Friday, September 23, 2011 
2:30 to 4:30 pm 
Building E51 Room 095 
Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge 

Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the mailing list contact mcollett at mit.edu. 
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