Ian Miller

Reforming food in post-Famine Ireland (eBook, ePUB)

Medicine, science and improvement, 1845-1922

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first dedicated study of how and why Irish consumption and production customs dramatically transformed after the famine and independence

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526102638
• Artikelnr.: 48795048

Autorenporträt

Ian Miller is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in Medical Humanities at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Ulster

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: constructing Irish bodies
c.1845-1900 1. The chemistry of famine: nutritional discourse and dietary transformation
c.1845-47 2. Framing the post-famine body: tea
bread and nutritional decline
c.1850-1900 3. Regulating the institutionalised body
c.1845-70 Part II: governing food
c.1850-1910 4. Reforming food production: agricultural science and education
c.1845-80 5. Purity
adulteration and national economic decline
c.1860-1910 6. Reforming Irish domestic and agricultural education
c.1890-1914 Part III: food
Imperialism and resistance
c.1900-22 7. Voluntarism
the state and the feeding of the young
c.1900-14 8. Anticipating a second famine: consumption
production and resistance during the First World War Conclusion Index