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  • Diet and Health in Modern Britain

    Edición de Derek J. Oddy, Derek S. Miller ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Food and Diet
    Originally published in 1985, Diet and Health in Modern Britain examines the changes in diet and health in Britain during the rapid social development of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is particularly concerned with the ways in which the problems of urban life were ameliorated. How was infant and child mortality reduced? How did family life go on in conditions where income ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • The Rise of Obesity in Europe

    A Twentieth Century Food History

    de Derek J. Oddy ...
    Twentieth century Europe went through a dramatic transition from low income populations experiencing hunger and nutritionally inadequate diets, to the recent era of over-consumption and growing numbers of overweight and obese people. By examining the trends in food history from case studies across Europe, this book offers a historical context to explain how and why this transition has occurred and ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • The Food Industries of Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    de Alain Drouard ...
    The industrialization of food preservation and processing has been a dramatic development across Europe during modern times. This book sets out its story from the beginning of the nineteenth century when preservation of food from one harvest to another was essential to prevent hunger and even famine. Population growth and urbanization depended upon a break out from the ’biological ancien regime’ ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

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  • Mobilize Food!

    Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today

    de Eleanor Boyle ...
    Faced with a climate crisis, can people commit to action? Faced with evidence that our agriculture and our diets fuel that crisis—producing significant greenhouse gases—can we muster the vision to produce and consume food differently? Transforming food systems to meet a threat has been done before, as revealed in Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today. The book recounts ... Leer más

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  • Addicted to Food

    Understanding the global obesity epidemic

    de James Erlichmann ...
    Series series Guardian Shorts
    Obesity has hit epidemic levels. In the developed, and much of the developing word, it is now 'normal' to be overweight with a BMI of 25 or more. And the global population is getting fatter all the time as a powerful mix of cheap foods, social behaviours and commercial pressures drive us to the biscuit tin again and again and again.But this is not the worst of it.The sugars, salts and fats that ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • The Food System

    de Geoff Tansey, Anthony Worsley ...
    Food is a massive industry and the many key players involved have very different interests. In wealthy nations those interests can range from corporate survival and maintaining profitability in a market with limited demand, to promoting a healthy diet and ensuring food safety. For the poor, the emphasis is all too often on simply getting enough to eat. As information technology and biotechnology ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • The Consuming Geographies of Food

    Diet, Food Deserts and Obesity

    de Hillary J. Shaw ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of Gastronomy, Food and Drink
    The consumption and distribution of food, as well as its production, has become a major public policy issue over the past few decades; what we eat is no longer merely a private matter but carries significant externalities for wider society. Its increasing significance within the public arena implies a dissonance regarding the boundaries of food; where do we draw the line between food as private ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Panic on a Plate

    How Society Developed an Eating Disorder

    de Rob Lyons ...
    Series Libro 2 - Societas
    Food in Britain today is more plentiful, more nutritious, more varied, and much more affordable than ever in our history. This is something to celebrate, and Rob Lyons does exactly that. In a series of short up-beat chapters he challenges head on the fashionable critics of so-called junk food and the "wacky world" of organic and locally-sourced food campaigners. They have created needless panic ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Economics of Chocolate

    Edición de Mara P. Squicciarini, Johan Swinnen ...
    This book, written by global experts, provides a comprehensive and topical analysis on the economics of chocolate. While the main approach is economic analysis, there are important contributions from other disciplines, including psychology, history, government, nutrition, and geography. The chapters are organized around several themes, including the history of cocoa and chocolate -- from cocoa ... Leer más

    $22.79 USD

  • Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe

    de Rachel Duffett ...
    Wars cannot be fought and sustained without food and this unique collection explores the impact of war on food production, allocation and consumption in Europe in the twentieth century. A comparative perspective which incorporates belligerent, occupied and neutral countries provides new insights into the relationship between food and war. The analysis ranges from military provisioning and systems ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • The Food Programme: 13 Foods that Shape Our World

    How Our Hunger has Changed the Past, Present and Future

    de Alex Renton ...
    Vital stories for hungry minds.In the first official book from BBC Radio 4's hit series The Food Programme, award-winning writer Alex Renton tells the stories of 13 key staples such as spice, oil, cocoa, bread and tomatoes, exploring their history, evolution and how our ever-growing hunger for them continues to alter our world. Look at food in a new light - as a weapon, an art form, a tool of ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Globalizing the Soybean

    Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950

    de Ines Prodöhl ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Globalizing the Soybean asks how the soybean conquered the West and analyzes why and how the crop gained entry into agriculture and industry in regions beyond Asia in the first half of the twentieth century.Historian Ines Prodöhl describes the soybean’s journey centered on three hubs: Northeast China, as the crop’s main growing area up to the Second World War; Germany, to where most of the beans ... Leer más

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