Nadja Durbach

Many Mouths

The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A compelling study of two centuries of British government food programs and the cultural, political and economic factors that shaped them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9781108483834
• ISBN-10: 1108483836
• Artikelnr.: 58306212

Autorenporträt

Nadja Durbach is a historian of Modern Britain at the University of Utah, where her work focuses on the History of the Body, particularly in relationship to the modern state. Her research interests include anti-vaccinationism in the nineteenth century, the Victorian and Edwardian freak show, and the history of state-feeding. Nadja has received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the American Philosophical Society. She is also the author of Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 (2005) and Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The politics of pickles; 1. Old English fare: festive meals,
the new Poor Law, and the boundaries of the nation; 2. Gendered portions
and racialized rations: the classification of difference in British and
colonial prisons; 3. Famine, cooked food, and the starving child:
rethinking political economy in colonial India; 4. Tommy's tummy:
provisioning POWs during the first world war; 5. The science of selection:
malnutrition and school meals in the interwar years; 6. Every sort and
condition of citizen: British restaurants and the communal feeding
experiment during the second world war; 7. Nations out of nurseries,
empires into bottles: the colonial politics of welfare orange juice;
Conclusion. How the sausage gets made.