Feeding Manila in peace and war, 1850-1945 / Daniel F. Doeppers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doeppers, Daniel F., 1938- author.

Series:

New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--Philippines--Manila--History.

Food supply.

History.

Manila (Philippines)--History--19th century.

Manila (Philippines).

Manila (Philippines)--History--20th century.

Manila (Philippines)--Social conditions--19th century.

Manila (Philippines)--Social conditions--20th century.

Social conditions.

Philippines--Manila.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 443 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]

Summary:

Policymakers and scholars have come to realize that getting food, water, and services to the millions who live in the world's few dozen megacities is one of the twenty-first century's most formidable challenges. As these populations continue to grow, apocalyptic scenarios-sprawling slums plagued by hunger, disease, and social disarray-become increasingly" plausible. In Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850-1945, Daniel F. Doeppers traces nearly a century in the life of Manila, one of the world's great megacities, to show how it grew and what sustained it. Doeppers follows key commodities for the city-rice, produce, fish, fowl, meat, milk, flour, coffee-and their complex interconnections. In the process he considers the changing ecology of the region as well as the social fabric that weaves together farmers, merchants, transporters, storekeepers, and door-to-door vendors. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Rice Trade

1 The Manila Rice Trade in the Age of Sail 15

2 Paleotechnic Marvels and Rice Production Disasters, 1876-1905 47

3 The Manila Rice Trade to 1941 78

4 Changing Commercial Networks in the Rice Trade 96

Part II Ulam: What You Eat with Rice

5 Vegetables, Fruit, and Other Garden Produce 125

6 Fishing and Aquacultute 161

7 "Generations of Hustlers": Fowl and Swine in Manila 189

8 Beef, Cattle Husbandry, and Rinderpest 218

Part III Fluids and Fashions

9 Fluids of Life: Water and Milk 253

10 Foreign Fashions: Flour and Coffee versus Cocoa 279

Part IV Wartime Provisioning and Mass Starvation

11 Subsistence and Starvation in World War II, 1941-45 307.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780299305109

0299305104

OCLC:

904942622