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

Table of Contents

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

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 31/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780719088865, 978-0719088865
      ISBN10: 719088860

      Description

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

      Table of Contents

      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

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