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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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Autor principal: Scott-Smith, Tom, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a "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 a simple story of progress and improvement, but is profoundly shaped by sociopolitical conditions"--  |c Provided by publisher 
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