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Feast and famine : food and nutrition in Ireland, 1500-1920 /

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This text traces the history of food and famine in Ireland. The authors explore the economic and social forces which have lain behind changes in diet, as well as the more personal motives of taste, preference, and nutrition.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clarkson, Leslie A.
Other Authors: Crawford, E. Margaret
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Food habits > Ireland > History.
Potatoes > Social aspects > Ireland > History.
Food supply > Ireland > History.
Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852.
Ireland > Social life and customs.
Nutrition.
Ireland.
Food > history
Diet > history
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Population Dynamics
Social Conditions > history
Starvation > history
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Habitudes alimentaires > Irlande > Histoire.
Irlande > Histoire > 1845-1852 (Grande Famine)
Irlande > Mœurs et coutumes.
Irlande.
Pomme de terre > Aspect social > Irlande > Histoire.
Aliments > Approvisionnement > Irlande > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Nutrition
Food habits
Food supply
Manners and customs
Potatoes > Social aspects
Voedselvoorziening.
Hongersnood.
1845-1852
Electronic books.
Statistics
History
Statistics.
Statistiques.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:This text traces the history of food and famine in Ireland. The authors explore the economic and social forces which have lain behind changes in diet, as well as the more personal motives of taste, preference, and nutrition.
Physical Description:1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-319) and index.
ISBN:9780191543678
0191543675
1280445947
9781280445941
9780198227519
0198227515