The politics of hunger : Protest, poverty and policy in England, <i>c.</i> 1750-<i>c.</i> 1840 /

The 1840s witnessed widespread hunger and malnutrition at home and mass starvation in Ireland. And yet the aptly named Hungry 40s came amidst claims that, notwithstanding Malthusian prophecies, absolute biological want had been eliminated in England. The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries wer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Griffin, Carl J. (Carl James) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Hunger > England > History > 19th century.
Hunger > England > History > 18th century.
Poverty > England > History > 19th century.
Poverty > England > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 18th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : 'the unremitted pressure' : on hunger politics
  • Food riots and the languages of hunger
  • The persistence of the discourse of starvation in the protests of the poor
  • Measuring need : Speenhamland, hunger and universal pauperism
  • Dietaries and the less eligibility workhouse : or, the making of the poor as biological subjects
  • The biopolitics of hunger : Malthus, Hodge and the racialisation of the poor
  • Telling the hunger of 'distant' others.

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