Reforming food in post-famine Ireland : medicine, science and improvement, 1845-1922 / Ian Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Ian, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--Ireland--History--19th century.

Food supply.

Food supply--Ireland--History--20th century.

Food Supply--history.

Diet--history.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Ireland.

Medical Subjects:

Food Supply--history.

Diet--history.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2014.

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Maps the pivotal role of food in shaping Irish society against the background of famine, the Land Wars, political turbulence, WWI, and the struggle for independence.

Contents:

Science, improvement and food, c. 1845-80. The chemistry of famine : nutritional discourse and dietary transformation ; Reforming food production : agricultural science and education

Food and national decline in post-Famine Ireland, c. 1845-1910. Food and improvement in the mid-nineteenth-century institution ; The decaying post-Famine body : tea, bread and nutritional decline ; Purity, adulteration and national economic decline ; Reforming Irish domestic and agricultural education

Food, imperialism and resistance, c. 1900-22. Voluntarism, the state and the feeding of the young ; Anticipating a second Famine : consumption, production and resistance during the First World War.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526102638

1526102633

9781526102621

1526102625

9781781706909

1781706905

OCLC:

894476910