TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott-Smith,Tom
TI  - On an empty stomach: two hundred years of hunger relief 
SN  - 9781501748660
AV  - HV696 .O536 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Food relief
KW  - History
KW  - Humanitarian assistance
KW  - Starvation
KW  - Emergency mass feeding
KW  - Nutrition
KW  - Research
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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