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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scott-Smith, Tom, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Food relief > History.
Humanitarian assistance > History.
Starvation > History.
Emergency mass feeding > History.
Nutrition > Research > History.
Aide alimentaire > Histoire.
Aide humanitaire > Histoire.
Inanition > Histoire.
Alimentation collective d'urgence > Histoire.
Nutrition > Recherche > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Agriculture & Food Policy (see also SOCIAL SCIENCE > Agriculture & Food) .
Emergency mass feeding
Food relief
Humanitarian assistance
Nutrition > Research
Starvation
Humanitariansim, Hunger, Modernism, International Aid, Food Studies.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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