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Hunger : a modern history / James Vernon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vernon, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor--Great Britain--History.
- Poor.
- Poor--Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Hunger--Great Britain--History.
- Hunger.
- Hunger--Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Food relief--Great Britain--History.
- Food relief.
- Great Britain--Social policy.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rigorously researched, Hunger: A Modern History draws together social, cultural, and political history, to show us how we came to have a moral, political, and social responsibility toward the hungry. Vernon forcefully reminds us how many perished from hunger in the empire and reveals how their history was intricately connected with the precarious achievements of the welfare state in Britain, as well as with the development of international institutions committed to the conquest of world hunger.
- Contents:
- Hunger and the making of the modern world
- The humanitarian discovery of hunger
- Hunger as political critique
- The science and calculation of hunger
- Hungry England and planning for a world of plenty
- Collective feeding and the welfare of society
- You are what you eat : educating the citizen as consumer
- Remembering hunger : the script of British social democracy
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-359) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674268142
- 0674268148
- 9780674044678
- 0674044673
- OCLC:
- 432671585
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