Food and the city in Europe since 1800 / edited by Peter J. Atkins, Peter Lummel, Derek J. Oddy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Atkins, P. J. (Peter J.)

Lummel, Peter, 1961-

Oddy, Derek J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Europe, Western--History.

Food habits.

Food supply--Europe, Western--History.

Food supply.

Food--Political aspects--Europe, Western.

Food.

Urbanization--Europe--History.

Urbanization.

Social conditions.

History.

Europe.

Europe, Western--History.

Europe, Western.

Europe, Western--Social conditions.

Western Europe.

Physical Description:

xvi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

Contents:

Food and the city / Peter J. Atkins and Derek J. Oddy

Urbanization and nutrition : historical research reconsidered / Hans Jürgen Teuteberg

'A tale of two cities' : a comparison of food supply in London and Paris in the 1850s / Peter J. Atkins

Urbanization and dietary change in Mediterranean Europe : Barcelona, 1870-1935 / Roser Nicolau-Nos and Josep Pujol-Andreu

Food science, food politics : Max Rubner and 'rational nutrition' in fin-de-siècle Berlin / Corinna Treitel

How to feed three million inhabitants : Berlin in the first years after the Second World War, 1945-1948 / Jürgen Schmidt

Food fraud and the big city : Brussels' responses to food anxieties in the nineteenth century / Peter Scholliers

Food quality in London and the rise of the public analyst, 1870-1939 / Derek J. Oddy

Municipal laboratories and the analysis of foodstuffs in France under the Third Republic : a case study of the Paris Municipal Laboratory, 1878-1907 / Alessandro Stanziani

The 'war against food adulteration' : municipal food monitoring and citizen self-help associations in Germany, 1870s-1880s / Vera Hierholzer

The discovery of vitamins and its impact on the food industry : the issue of tinned sweetened condensed skim milk, 1890-1940 / Adel P. den Hartog

First-class restaurants and luxury food stores : the emergence of the Soviet culture of consumption in the 1930s / Jukka Gronow

A shop window of the regime : the position of Prague as the capital in the preferential supply system of selected Czechoslovakian cities, 1950-1970 / Martin Franc

Born-in-the-city : the supermarket in Germany / Peter Lummel

The changing position of exotic foods in post-war Amsterdam / Anneke H. van Otterloo

The immigrant impact upon London's food since c.1850 / Panikos Panayi

Scientists at the table : the cultural significance of scientists' festive meals in Berlin, 1830-1940 / Ulrike Thoms

Reforming diet at the end of the nineteenth century in Europe / Alain Drouard

Turtle soup and water porridge : some social and cultural perspectives on food habits in the city of Oslo, 1860-2000 / Virginie Amilien

Food markets in the city of Bordeaux from the 1960s until today : historical evolution and anthropological aspects / Isabelle Téchoueyres

Conclusion / Peter J. Atkins and Derek J. Oddy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754649892

075464989X

OCLC:

77573173