In the 150 years since the birth of the petroleum industry oil has saturated our culture, fueling our cars and wars, our economy and policies. But just as thoroughly, culture saturates oil. So what exactly is "oil culture"? This book pursues an answer through petrocapitalism's history in...

Power, food, and agriculture: implications for farmers, consumers, and communities / Mary K. Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, and Douglas H. Constance -- Chickenizing American farmers, or "Sometimes I feel like a galley slave" / Donald D. Stull -- Industrial chicken meat and the good life in...

This comprehensive book contains case studies on the evolution of competition policy, with an emphasis on merger policy, for seven major US industries that have experienced substantial deregulation in the past forty years - electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railroads, airlines,...