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Book SynopsisTrade Review"
Migrant Marketplaces is a solidly researched, well-written book that offers a fresh perspective on Italian food and foodways via the histories of Italian migrant communities in North and South America . . . . Zanoni's work adds a new dimension to pioneering studies on migration, gender, and food. " --
H-Net Reviews"Elizabeth Zanoni’s innovative 'migrant marketplace' framework offers an invaluable global perspective on migrant cuisines and commodity networks through the lens of gender. Challenging scornful views of Italian foods in the Americas as inauthentic products of assimilation, she reveals them instead to be strategic and creative responses to transnational family life."—Jeffrey M. Pilcher, author of
Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food"Enriching our understanding of how migrant contributions and experiences are shaped in historically specific ways by national and transnational policy, food, consumerism, and ideas about race and gender, Zanoni's book will resonate for many scholars and students who study these topics in the Americas and beyond." --
Italian American Review"Most important among the strengths of the book is that it coins and convincingly defines the paradigm of 'migrant marketplace' to describe the material and symbolic space created by human mobility for the trade and circulation of goods and consumer imaginaries. A great and important book."--Simone Cinotto, author of
The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City and editor of
Making Italian America: Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities"
Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America is a welcomed, original contribution that goes beyond earlier studies to introduce an innovative framework of analysis that looks at migrants not only as producers but also as consumers. . . .Elizabeth Zanoni's book builds bridges between areas of inquiry that have remained mostly separated in the scholarship, most notably by deftly combining insights from migration history, history of consumer practices, food studies, and gender and ethnic studies." --
American Historical Review"Clear and engaging. By focusing on the products, as opposed to the people, Zanoni highlights the ways in which the distribution and products by and for migrant communities played a pivotal role in shaping notions of national and ethnic belonging."--Linda Reeder, author of
Widows in White: Migration and the Transformation of Rural Women, Sicily, 1880–1928"In a work so attentive to geopolitics and commodity paths, it is refreshing to see gender at the center of the analysis. . . .Using food as a common thread to weave together political, economic, immigration, labor, and cultural histories from a global perspective, Zanoni's study in culinary globalization convincingly shows the value of food studies for the discipline of history." --
Journal of American History
