On an Empty Stomach : : Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief /

On an Empty Stomach : : Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief / / Tom Scott-Smith.

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On an Empty Stomach examines the practical techniques humanitarians have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian "scientific" soup kitchens to space-age, high-protein foods. Tracing the evolution of these techniques since the start of the nineteenth century, Tom Scott-Smith a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Scott-Smith, Tom,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 13 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Humanitarian Approaches to Hunger
  • 1. From the Classical Soup Kitchen to the Irish Famine
  • 2. Justus Liebig and the Rise of Nutritional Science
  • 3. Governing the Diet in Victorian Institutions
  • 4. Colonialism and Communal Strength
  • 5. Social Nutrition at the League of Nations
  • 6. Military Feeding during World War II
  • 7. The Medicalization of Hunger and the Postwar Period
  • 8. High Modernism and the Development Decade
  • 9. Low Modernism after Biafra
  • 10. Small-Scale Devices and the Low Modernist Legacy
  • Conclusion: On an Empty Stomach
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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