Hunger : : A Modern History / / James Vernon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Vernon, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1 Hunger and the Making of the Modern World --; 2 The Humanitarian Discovery of Hunger --; 3 Hunger as Political Critique --; 4 The Science and Calculation of Hunger --; 5 Hungry England and Planning for a World of Plenty --; 6 Collective Feeding and the Welfare of Society --; 7 You Are What You Eat --; 8 Remembering Hunger --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674044678; 9783110442205; 9783110459517; 9783110662566
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674044678
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: James Vernon.

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.