Hunger

A Modern History

James Vernon

  • Co-Winner, 2008 PCCBS Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
  • 2008 Norris Hundley Award, Sponsored by the Pacific Branch of the AHA

Preface

1. Hunger and the Making of the Modern World

2. The Humanitarian Discovery of Hunger

3. Hunger as Political Critique

4. The Science and Calculation of Hunger

5. Hungry England and Planning for a World of Plenty

6. Collective Feeding and the Welfare of Society

7. You Are What You Eat: Educating the Citizen as Consumer

8. Remembering Hunger: The Script of British Social Democracy

9. Conclusion

Notes

Index

  • Cover: Hunger

James Vernon is Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley.