Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society

Robert I. Rotberg (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 0521315050 / ISBN 13: 9780521315050

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1985

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The essays in this 1985 volume direct attention to important questions on the relationship between food and history. Editor(s): Rotberg, Robert I.; Rabb, Theodore K. Num Pages: 346 pages, d.tabs. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510. . 1985. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521315050
• ISBN 13: 9780521315050
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The essays in this 1985 volume direct attention to important questions on the relationship between food and history. Throughout human history, man has had to adapt and sustain himself by varying or expanding the basic kinds or forms of his nutritional staples, by migration, or by employing remarkable ingenuities to alter his environment. But we have as yet only a rudimentary understanding of nutrition and malnutrition in the past. The authors of these essays show how much of the past can be better understood if the distinctions which are obvious to clinicians and nutritionists are assimilated by historians. Likewise, this volume challenges assumptions about the mechanisms of population growth and decline, as well as theories of how populations react or adapt to constraints on their resources.

Book Description

These essays direct attention to important questions on the relationship between food and history, showing how the past can be better understood if the distinctions which are obvious to clinicians and nutritionists are assimilated by historians. The 1985 volume also challenges assumptions about mechanisms of population growth and decline.