Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State

ISBN-13: 9781108483834 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 440 str.

Nadja Durbach

Opis

A compelling study of two centuries of British government food programs and the cultural, political and economic factors that shaped them.

Recenzje

'… Durbach's study provides compelling evidence that there are certain irreducible realities about food itself that resist even well meaning attempts at ameliorating undernutrition no matter what form it may take.' Travis A. Weisse, Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Spis treści

Introduction. The politics of pickles; 1. Old English fare: festive meals, the new Poor Law, and the boundaries of the nation; 2. Gendered portions and racialized rations: the classification of difference in British and colonial prisons; 3. Famine, cooked food, and the starving child: rethinking political economy in colonial India; 4. Tommy's tummy: provisioning POWs during the first world war; 5. The science of selection: malnutrition and school meals in the interwar years; 6. Every sort and condition of citizen: British restaurants and the communal feeding experiment during the second world war; 7. Nations out of nurseries, empires into bottles: the colonial politics of welfare orange juice; Conclusion. How the sausage gets made.