Description
Book SynopsisHungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties among workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, Joshua Frens-String explores how Chileans across generations sought to center food security as a right of citizenship. In so doing, he deftly untangles the relationship between two of twentieth-century Chile's most significant political and economic processes: the fight of an emergent urban working class to gain reliable access to nutrient-rich foodstuffs and the state's efforts to modernize its underproducing agricultural countryside.
Trade Review"This highly readable and engaging narrative is suitable both for experts in Latin American and food history and for students looking to learn more about food politics and modern Chile." * Hispanic American Historical Review *
"This is a very readable book, an important contribution to understanding Chilean history, and a valuable addition to the relatively thinly populated field of the history of technology in Latin America." * Technology and Culture *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Building a Revolutionary Appetite
Part One: A Hungry Nation
1 • Worlds of Abundance, Worlds of Scarcity
2 • Red Consumers
Part Two: Containing Hunger
3 • Controlling for Nutrition
4 • Cultivating Consumption
Part Three: Recipes for Change
5 • When Revolution Tasted Like Empanadas and Red Wine
6 • A Battle for the Chilean Stomach
7 • Barren Plots and Empty Pots
Epilogue: Counterrevolution at the Market
Key Acronyms and Terms in Chilean Food History
Notes
Bibliography
Index
