On an empty stomach : : two hundred years of hunger relief / / Tom Scott-Smith.
"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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (289 pages) :; illustrations |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a On an empty stomach : |b two hundred years of hunger relief / |c Tom Scott-Smith. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Ithaca : |b Cornell University Press, |c 2020. | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (289 pages) : |b illustrations | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Food relief |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Humanitarian assistance |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Starvation |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Emergency mass feeding |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Nutrition |x Research |x History. | |
| 655 | 4 | |a Electronic books. | |
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