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Hunger : a modern history /

Rigorously researched, Hunger: A Modern History draws together social, cultural, and political history, to show us how we came to have a moral, political, and social responsibility toward the hungry. Vernon forcefully reminds us how many perished from hunger in the empire and reveals how their histo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vernon, James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hunger and the making of the modern world
  • The humanitarian discovery of hunger
  • Hunger as political critique
  • The science and calculation of hunger
  • Hungry England and planning for a world of plenty
  • Collective feeding and the welfare of society
  • You are what you eat : educating the citizen as consumer
  • Remembering hunger : the script of British social democracy
  • Conclusion.