On an empty stomach : two hundred years of hunger relief / Tom Scott-Smith.
Scott-Smith, Tom, 1980- author.
2020
HV696.F6 S39 2020
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Title On an empty stomach : two hundred years of hunger relief / Tom Scott-Smith.
Author Scott-Smith, Tom, 1980- author.
ISBN 9781501748653 (cloth)
9781501748660
9781501748677 (e-book)
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number HV696.F6 S39 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.8/83
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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