Reforming food in post-Famine Ireland medicine, science and improvement, 1845 - 1922

Science, improvement and food, c. 1845-80. The chemistry of famine : nutritional discourse and dietary transformation ; Reforming food production : agricultural science and educationFood and national decline in post-Famine Ireland, c. 1845-1910. Food and improvement in the mid-nineteenth-century ins...

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1. Verfasser: Miller, Ian (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Manchester u.a. Manchester Univ. Prress 2014
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Zusammenfassung:Science, improvement and food, c. 1845-80. The chemistry of famine : nutritional discourse and dietary transformation ; Reforming food production : agricultural science and educationFood and national decline in post-Famine Ireland, c. 1845-1910. Food and improvement in the mid-nineteenth-century institution ; The decaying post-Famine body : tea, bread and nutritional decline ; Purity, adulteration and national economic decline ; Reforming Irish domestic and agricultural education -- Food, imperialism and resistance, c. 1900-22. Voluntarism, the state and the feeding of the young ; Anticipating a second Famine : consumption, production and resistance during the First World War.
Maps the pivotal role of food in shaping Irish society against the background of famine, the Land Wars, political turbulence, WWI, and the struggle for independence
Maps the pivotal role of food in shaping Irish society against the background of famine, the Land Wars, political turbulence, WWI, and the struggle for independence
Beschreibung:XII, 227 S.
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ISBN:9780719088865
978-0-7190-8886-5
0719088860
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