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Contents Acknowledgments vii Part I Consumption 1 Why Milk? 3 2 The Perfect Food Story 17 3 Why Not Mother? The Rise of Cow’s Milk as Infant Food in Nineteenth-Century America 46 4 The Milk Question: Perfecting Food as Urban Reform 67 5 Perfect Food, Perfect Bodies 90 Part II Production 6 Perfect Farming: The Industrial Vision of Dairying 125 7 The Less Perfect Story: Diversity and Farming Strategies 144 8 Crisis: The “Border-Line” Problem 165 9 Alternative Visions of Dairying: Productivism and Producerism in New York, Wisconsin, and California 183 10 The End of Perfection 210 Afterword 241 Notes 244 Bibliography 271 Index 297 About the Author 311 v ...