Auteur: Benjamin R. Cohen

Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in nineteenth-century America. Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and scie …

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Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades at the turn of the twentieth century to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods in the United States.In the latter nineteenth …

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Case studies exploring how experts’ encounters with environmental justice are changing technical and scientific practice.Over the course of nearly thirty years, the environmental justice movement has …

How modern food helped make modern society between 1870 and 1930: stories of power and food, from bananas and beer to bread and fake meat.The modern way of eating-our taste for food that is processed …