Hunger : a modern history / / James Vernon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910974601803321
• Autore: Vernon James
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, England, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 9780674268142; 0674268148; 9780674044678; 0674044673
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Classificazione: MS 6440
• Disciplina: 363.809171/241
• Soggetti: Poor - Great Britain - History; Poor - Great Britain - Colonies - History; Hunger - Great Britain - History; Hunger - Great Britain - Colonies - History; Food relief - Great Britain - History; Fam; Pobresa; Pobres; Política social; Història social; Llibres electrònics; Great Britain Social policy; Gran Bretanya
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-359) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.