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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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.