Many mouths : the politics of food in Britain from the workhouse to the welfare state / Nadja Durbac...
Many mouths : the politics of food in Britain from the workhouse to the welfare state / Nadja Durbac...
Many mouths : the politics of food in Britain from the workhouse to the welfare state / Nadja Durbach.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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English
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1 online resource (xii, 363 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
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 pol...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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England
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2020.
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This compelling study explores food programs initiated by the British government across two centuries, from the workhouses of the 1830s to the post-war Welfare State. Challenging the assumption that state ideologies and practices were progressive and based primarily on scientific advances in nutrition, Nadja Durbach examines the political, economic...
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Many mouths : the politics of food in Britain from the workhouse to the welfare state / Nadja Durbach.
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1-108-48383-6
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74VKaz0V6Noy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaz0V6Noy
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1-108-59418-2
1-108-61470-1
1-108-57949-3
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363.8/5610941
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991024402504702626
