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Modern food, moral food : self-control, science, and the rise of modern American eating in the early twentieth century /
American eating changed dramatically in the early twentieth century. As food production became more industrialized, nutritionists, home economists, and so-called racial scientists were all pointing Americans toward a newly scientific approach to diet. Food faddists were rewriting the most basic rule...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill [North Carolina] :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Victory over ourselves : American food in the era of the Great War
- National willpower : American asceticism and self-government
- Eating cats and dogs to feed the world : The progressive quest for rational food
- Food will win the world : Food aid and American power
- A school for wives : Home economics and the modern housewife
- A corn-fed nation : Race, diet, and the eugenics of nutrition
- Americanizing the American diet : Immigrant cuisines and not-so-foreign foods
- The triumph of the will : The progressive body and the thin ideal
- Epilogue : Moral food and modern food.