Scott-Smith, Tom,  1980- <br/><br/>
On an empty stomach :  two hundred years of hunger relief / 
Tom Scott-Smith. 
 - Ithaca :  Cornell University Press,  (c)2020. 
 - 1 online resource (xviii, 268 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : humanitarian approaches to hunger --  From the classical soup kitchen to the Irish famine --  Justus Liebig and the rise of nutritional science --  Governing the diet in Victorian institutions --  Colonialism and communal strength --  Social nutrition at the League of Nations --  Military feeding during World War Two --  The medicalization of hunger and the postwar period --  High modernism and the development decade --  Low modernism after Biafra --  Small-scale devices and the low modernist legacy --  Conclusion : on an empty stomach. 
<br/><br/> "This book examines the practical techniques humanitarians have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian soup kitchens to space-age, high-protein foods. Tracing the evolution of these techniques since the start of the nineteenth century, the book argues that humanitarianism is not a simple story of progress and improvement, but is profoundly shaped by sociopolitical conditions"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781501748660 9781501748677 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019032686 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Food relief--History.<br/>Humanitarian assistance--History.<br/>Starvation--History.<br/>Emergency mass feeding--History.<br/>Nutrition--Research--History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV696  / .O536 2020