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100 1 _aManz, Stefan.
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245 1 0 _aMaking Food Empires :
_bGerman Technology and Global Mass Production, 1870-1914.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press, Incorporated,
_c2026.
264 4 _c©2026.
300 _a1 online resource (257 pages)
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338 _aOnline Resource
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500 _aE-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
505 0 _aCover -- Making Food Empires : German Technology and Global Mass Production, 1870-1914 -- Production, 1870-1914 -- Copyright -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Mass Production and Globalizing Foodways -- Justus Liebig and Food Science in Germany -- Food Control and Devices -- Migrants as Agents of Transfer in the Global Market Spheres -- 3: Sugar The Science of Sweetness -- Cane Sugar and Continental Europe -- 'Cuba in Germany': The Rise of Beet Sugar -- Alternatives: Sorghum and Saccharin -- Sugar as a Commodity -- Political Economy: Trade Politics and the BrusselsSugar Convention of 1902/03 -- The Science of Sugar and the Rise of the Beet -- Horizontal Knowledge Transfer and theResurgence of Cane Sugar -- Conclusion -- 4: Claus Spreckels 'Sugar King' of California and Hawaii -- Sugar Production in the United States -- Building Food Empires: Claus Spreckels and the Sugaring of Hawaii -- Domestic Sugar: Spreckels' Beet Sugar Business in California -- How German? Spreckels' Sugar Empire in America and the Pacific -- 5: Rum The Chemistry of Colonialism -- A Complex Product -- Foreign and Homegrown: Variations in Germany -- Pressure to Modernize in Colonial and Postcolonial Settings -- Rum's Central Role in Debates about Food Standards -- Chemistry and Technology as Structural Competitors of the Colonial Rum Industry -- The Failure of Rum Production in German East Africa -- Modernization of a Traditional Industry -- Conclusion -- 6: Georg(e) Stade Scientific Rum Making in Barbados -- Germany and Stade in the Global Sugar Industry -- Setting up the West Indies Rum Refinery (WIRR) -- Crisis Management as an Outsider -- Disrupting Markets -- Conclusion -- 7: Beer The Technology of Transformation -- Transnational Brewing Science -- German Brewers and Scientification in Britain.
505 8 _aScotland -- Global Spread beyond Europe -- Conclusion -- 8: Joseph Schlitz and the Uihlein Brothers Industrial Brewing in the United States -- How German? Brewing in the United States -- Family Business, Immigration, and Capitalism -- Technology Transfer and Innovation -- Business Integration through Distribution Networks and Consumption Spaces -- Bottling Technology and Marketing Strategies -- American versus German Beer Empires -- 9: Conclusion Making Modern Food Worlds -- Bibliography -- A. Primary Sources -- Archival Material -- Printed Works -- B. Secondary Sources -- Published Works -- Theses -- Web Sources -- Index General -- Index Names -- Index Organisations -- Index Places.
520 _aThis book explores the industrialisation and globalisation of foodways via the prism of three commodities: sugar, rum, and beer. Starting from German specialists' and entrepreneurs' involvement, the book reveals how the flow of know-how, patents, and people transcended boundaries, leading to transnational knowledge exchange in all world regions.
655 _aFernzugriff
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700 1 _aSpiekermann, Uwe.
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776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aManz, Stefan
_tMaking Food Empires
_dOxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2026
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