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Year:: 1970
Contributor:: Davis, Wayne H. (Author)
Genre:: articles
Subject:: Political Affairs & Relations; Agriculture; Overpopulation; Overpopulation--Environmental aspects; Population Growth; Food; Pesticides; DDT (Insecticide); DDT (Insecticide)--Environmental aspects; DDT (Insecticide)--Physiological effect; Pesticides--Environmental aspects; Pesticides--Law and legislation; Pesticides--Government policy; Pesticides--Safety measures; Pesticides--Safety regulations
Local ID:: AGR 4-2
Collection:: History; Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s

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Description:: Interior view of one of the food halls. On the foreground stands the Mercier Champagne barrel, which had been specifically designed for the occasion.
Year:: 1889
Genre:: photoengravings (prints)
Subject:: Exposition universelle de 1889 (Paris, France); Food; Architecture > Markets; Architecture > Monuments; Social Life > Entertainment; 1871-1940 (The Third Republic)
Local ID:: 2-SIZE T803.C1 G57x 1889
Collection:: Brown University Library; Paris: Capital of the 19th Century

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Year:: 1964
Contributor:: State (addressee); Recife (Brazil) (distribution place); MacDougall, H. C. (drafter)
Subject:: Recife; Wheat; Eggs; Food; Operation Cleanup; Peasants
Collection:: History; Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s

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Description:: The thesis explores the histories of five displaced communities in Providence: The Narragansett Tribe, Colonial Black Heritage, Chinatown, Lippitt Hill, and Fox Point. Each of …
Year:: 2023
Contributor:: Castillo, Aaron J (creator); Field, Alison (thesis advisor); Lincoln, Evelyn (reader); hernández, jesús (reader); Brown University. Independent Concentrations (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Collective memory; History; Rhode Island--Providence; Food; displacement; Culture; Identity; Urban renewal--Planning; Community-based research
Collection:: Who Has a Seat at the Table?; Office of the Dean of the College; Independent Concentrations; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation is a study of a boycott during the 1970s and 80s against the largest food company on the planet, when activists accused Nestlé …
Year:: 2015
Contributor:: Knapp, Bryan V (creator); Self, Robert (Director); Rockman, Seth (Reader); Borgwardt, Elizabeth (Reader); Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: infant formula; Nestle; development; Congress; earthrise; breastmilk; Capitalism; Globalization; Infant formula industry; Nestlé; Boycotts; Economic development; World Health Organization; Food; Breastfeeding; Breast milk
Collection:: History; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This senior thesis project explores the complicated intersection of food and culture, diabetes, biopower, and identity. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an endocrinology clinic …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Sarig, Ya'el (creator); Smith, Daniel (thesis advisor); Glasser, Irene (reader); Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: gender; Diabetes; Food habits; Eating disorders; Food; Medicalization; Culture; Biopolitics; performativity; Subjectivity
Collection:: Anthropology; Theses and Dissertations

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