Hunger: A Modern HistoryRigorously 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. |
Contents
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2 The Humanitarian Discovery of Hunger | 17 |
3 Hunger as Political Critique | 41 |
4 The Science and Calculation of Hunger | 81 |
5 Hungry England and Planning for a World of Plenty | 118 |
6 Collective Feeding and the Welfare of Society | 159 |
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