Hunger and History The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society

Name: Hunger and History The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society
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ISBN: 9780521315050

ISBN-10: 0521315050

ISBN-13: 9780521315050

Edition: 1985

Authors: Robert I. Rotberg, Theodore K. Rabb

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The essays in this volume direct attention to important questions on the relationship between food and history. Throughout human history, man has had to adapt and sustain himself by varying or expanding the basic kinds or forms of his nutritional staples, by migration, or by employing remarkable ingenuities to alter his environment. But we have as yet only a rudimentary understanding of nutrition and malnutrition in the past. The authors of these essays show how much of the past can be better understood if the distinctions which are obvious to clinicians and nutritionists are assimilated by historians. Likewise, this volume challenges assumptions about the mechanisms of population growth…

Book details

List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/29/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 346
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English




Nutrition and history




Nutrition, mortality and population size: Malthus' court of last report




Food, Infection




Infection, hidden hunger, and history




The impact of scarcity and plenty on population change in England, 1571-1871




The nutrition-mortality link in past times: a comment




The horticultural revolution: a cautionary note on prices




Social conflict and the grain supply in eighteenth-century France




Food entitlement, famine, and conflict




Famines, epidemics, and population growth Michelle




Better nutrition and India: a comment Santhebachahalli




Nutrition in African History




The impact of scarcity and plenty on development




Functional consequences of malnutrition for human populations: a comment




The effects of population on nutrition and economic well-being




Economics and population growth: a comment




Secular changes in American and British stature and nutrition




Synergy among mass infections, famines and poverty




The relationship of nutrition, disease, and social conditions: a graphical presentation The Conferees



Diet and delocalization: dietary changes since 1750




The value of contemporary food and nutrition studies for historians