Title: Food and the city in Europe since 1800 /
Authors: Atkins, P. J.; Lummel, Peter, 1961-; Oddy, Derek J.
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Urbanization; Food Supply; Urbanization history; History, 20th Century; History, 19th Century; Feeding Behavior; Food Supply history; Food habits Europe, Western History.; Food supply Europe, Western History.; Food Political aspects Europe, Western.; Urbanization Europe History; Europe; Europe, Western History.; Europe, Western Social conditions.; Europe
Contents: Food and the city / Peter J. Atkins and Derek J. Oddy -- Urbanization and nutrition : historical research reconsidered / Hans Jürgen Teuteberg -- "A tale of two cities" : a comparison of food supply in London and Paris in the 1850s / Peter J. Atkins -- Urbanization and dietary change in Mediterranean Europe : Barcelona, 1870-1935 / Roser Nicolau-Nos and Josep Pujol-Andreu -- Food science, food politics : Max Rubner and "rational nutrition" in fin-de-siècle Berlin / Corinna Treitel -- How to feed three million inhabitants : Berlin in the first years after the Second World War, 1945-1948 / Jürgen Schmidt -- Food fraud and the big city : Brussels' responses to food anxieties in the nineteenth century / Peter Scholliers -- Food quality in London and the rise of the public analyst, 1870-1939 / Derek J. Oddy -- Municipal laboratories and the analysis of foodstuffs in France under the Third Republic : a case study of the Paris Municipal Laboratory, 1878-1907 / Alessandro Stanziani --