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On an empty stomach : two hundred years of hunger relief /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scott-Smith, Tom, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.