Initiation and development of the industries producing specialty starches, modified food starches, high-fructose sweeteners, and food gums (hydrocolloids) over the past century provided major ingredients for the rapid and extensive growth of the processed food and beverage industries. Introduction of waxy maize starch and high-amylose corn starch occurred in the 1940s and 1950s, respectively. D...

Introduction This paper's purpose is to describe and criticize the strategies of theory construction presented by the Columbia Department of Sociology's faculty during the 1950s. The Columbia Department was a major center for sociological theory during the 1950s and some of its graduates became important theorists during the last half of the century.

In the article, tension of USSR-Turkey relations starting from second half 20th century, international environment and conflicts in Middle East region 1950s, projects put forward by United States, England France for defense East, measures taken against Soviet threat, sake influence Syria The aggravation struggle between USA USSR, impact Syrian crisis on USSR Turkey was investigated. At same tim...

This article explores key themes and discourses surrounding women’s health advice written by Dr. Marion Hilliard between 1954 and 1957. Her works, published in eight Chatelaine articles and a 1957 book, are of particular significance because they demonstrate some of the many paradoxes Canadian women faced: women were told to stay at home and be housewives, but that they could have an identity o...

This article investigates the relationship between grandparents and lesbian daughters in the context of childbirth, looking specifically at the role that pregnancy plays in shaping kinship affinities. Gender, sex, and heterosexuality are fundamental to Euro-American kinship discourse and practice; lesbian couples' parenthood through donor conception represents a significant departure from preva...