The politics of hunger : protest, poverty and policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840 /

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Systematically explores what it is conceived as 'hunger politics': the articulations of hunger as a tool of protest by poor consumers; its framing as a problem in the making of public policy; and its (elite) political languages and the attendant effects.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Griffin, Carl J. (Carl James) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
1700-1899
Poverty > England > History > 18th century.
Poverty > England > History > 19th century.
Hunger > England > History > 18th century.
Hunger > England > History > 19th century.
Pauvreté > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Pauvreté > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Faim > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Faim > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Hunger
Poverty
Social conditions
Great Britain > Social conditions > 18th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
England
Great Britain
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 'The unremitted pressure': On hunger politics
  • Part I Protesting hunger
  • Food riots and the languages of hunger
  • The persistence of the discourse of starvation in the protests of the poor
  • Part II Hunger policies
  • Measuring need: Speenhamland, hunger and universal pauperism
  • Dietaries and the less eligibility workhouse: or, the making of the poor as biological subjects
  • Part III Theorising hunger
  • The biopolitics of hunger: Malthus, Hodge and the racialisation of the poor
  • Telling the hunger of 'distant' others
  • Conclusions.

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