TY  - BOOK
AU  - Griffin,Carl J.
TI  - The politics of hunger: protest, poverty and policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840 
SN  - 9781526145635
AV  - HV4086 .P655 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Poverty
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Hunger
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Front matter --; Cover --; Half Title --; Title Page --; Copyright Page --; Dedication --; Contents --; Tables and figures --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: 'The unremitted pressure': On hunger politics --; Part I Protesting hunger --; Food riots and the languages of hunger --; The persistence of the discourse of starvation in the protests of the poor --; Part II Hunger policies --; Measuring need: Speenhamland, hunger and universal pauperism --; Dietaries and the less eligibility workhouse: or, the making of the poor as biological subjects --; Part III Theorising hunger --; The biopolitics of hunger: Malthus, Hodge and the racialisation of the poor --; Telling the hunger of 'distant' others --; Conclusions --; Select bibliography --; Index; 2; b
N2  - Systematically explores what it is conceived as 'hunger politics': the articulations of hunger as a tool of protest by poor consumers; its framing as a problem in the making of public policy; and its (elite) political languages and the attendant effects
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