c. 1942–1947 CE
Ration Books and Shopping Baskets: Food in Wartime America
Ration books brought wartime supply pressures to the grocery counter. Photographs, point systems and victory gardens reveal the work behind feeding American households.
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c. 3500–2000 BCE
Feeding the First Cities: Farming, Storage and Distribution
Follow food from irrigated fields to containers and clay accounts, and discover what the evidence can tell us about supplying early Mesopotamian cities.
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