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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 histo...

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Main Author: Vernon, James (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: London, England : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Poor > Great Britain > History.
Poor > Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Hunger > Great Britain > History.
Hunger > Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Food relief > Great Britain > History.
Great Britain > Social policy.
Hunger.
Hunger
Poverty > history
Social Welfare > history
United Kingdom
Pauvres > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Pauvres > Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire.
Faim > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Faim > Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire.
Aide alimentaire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique sociale.
Faim.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
HISTORY > World.
Food relief
Poor
Social policy
Great Britain
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.