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“cathy stanton”

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  • Food Margins

    Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer

    by Cathy Stanton ...
    Winner of the 2025 New England Society Book Award for Specialty TitlesWinner of the 2024 Readable Feast Award for Social ConsciousnessNamed one of Food Tank's 20 Food Systems Reads that Will Inspire You this SummerIn a food industry shaped by the abundance, cheapness, and convenience that giant corporations can offer, small-scale ventures struggle to survive, as anthropologist Cathy Stanton ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • The Lowell Experiment

    Public History in a Postindustrial City

    by Cathy Stanton ...
    In the early nineteenth century, Lowell, Massachusetts, was widely studied and emulated as a model for capitalist industrial development. One of the first cities in the United States to experience the ravages of deindustrialization, it was also among the first places in the world to turn to its own industrial and ethnic history as a tool for reinventing itself in the emerging postindustrial ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Public History and the Food Movement

    Adding the Missing Ingredient

    by Michelle Moon, Cathy Stanton ...
    Public History and the Food Movement argues that today’s broad interest in making food systems fairer, healthier, and more sustainable offers a compelling opportunity for the public history field.Moon and Stanton show how linking heritage institutions’ unique skills and resources with contemporary food issues can offer accessible points of entry for the public into broad questions about human and ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Food for City Building

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  • Change Here Now

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  • The Better World Handbook

    Small Changes That Make A Big Difference

    by Ellis Jones, Brett Johnson, Ross Haenfler ...
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  • Good Morning, Beautiful Business

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