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On an Empty Stomach Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief
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On an Empty Stomach [electronic resource] : Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief / Tom Scott-Smith.
ISBN
150174867X
9781501748677
9781501748653
9781501748660
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000.
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"This book examines the practical techniques humanitarians have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian soup kitchens to space-age, high-protein foods. Tracing the evolution of these techniques since the start of the nineteenth century, the book argues that humanitarianism is not a simple story of progress and improvement, but is profoundly shaped by sociopolitical conditions"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE - 2020 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2020 History.
Other formats
Online version: Scott-Smith, Tom, 1980- On an empty stomach Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 08, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : humanitarian approaches to hunger
From the classical soup kitchen to the Irish famine
Justus Liebig and the rise of nutritional science
Governing the diet in Victorian institutions
Colonialism and communal strength
Social nutrition at the League of Nations
Military feeding during World War Two
The medicalization of hunger and the postwar period
High modernism and the development decade
Low modernism after Biafra
Small-scale devices and the low modernist legacy
Conclusion : on an empty stomach.
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