Hunger : a modern history / James Vernon.

By:

Vernon, James [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London, England : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 369 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780674044678
0674044673
0674268148
9780674268142

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hunger.DDC classification:

363.809171/241 22

LOC classification:

HC260.P6 P47 2007eb

NLM classification:

2008 J-208
WD 100

Other classification:

MS 6440

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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.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-359) and index.

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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.

English.

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