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Modern food, moral food : self-control, science, and the rise of modern American eating in the early twentieth century / Helen Zoe Veit.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Veit, Helen Zoe, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diet--United States--History--20th century.
- Diet.
- Food habits--United States--History--20th century.
- Food habits.
- Food habits--United States--Psychological aspects.
- Body image--United States--History--20th century.
- Body image.
- History.
- Psychological aspects.
- United States--Social conditions--20th century.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Diet--history.
- Body Image.
- Food--history.
- Feeding Behavior--psychology.
- History, 20th Century.
- Nutritional Requirements.
- Social Conditions--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Diet--history.
- United States.
- Body Image.
- Food--history.
- Feeding Behavior--psychology.
- History, 20th Century.
- Nutritional Requirements.
- Social Conditions--history.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- National willpower : American asceticism and self-government
- Eating cats and dogs to feed the world : the progressive quest for rational food
- Food will win the world : food aid and American power
- A school for wives : home economics and the modern housewife
- A corn-fed nation : race, diet, and the eugenics of nutrition
- Americanizing the American diet : immigrant cuisines and not-so-foreign foods
- The triumph of the will : the progressive body and the thin ideal.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1469607700
- 9781469607702
- OCLC:
- 821067772
- Publisher Number:
- 99954836355
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