Title: Feeding Manila in peace and war, 1850-1945 /
Authors: Doeppers, Daniel F., 1938-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Manila; Food supply Philippines Manila History.; Food supply; Social conditions; Food Supply history; Oryza; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Manila (Philippines) History; Manila (Philippines) History; Manila (Philippines) Social conditions; Manila (Philippines) Social conditions; Philippines Manila; Philippines
Contents: Introduction: Why provisionment? -- Part I. The rice trade. The Manila rice trade in the age of sail -- Paleotechnic marvels and rice production disasters, 1876-1905 -- The Manila rice trade to 1941 -- Changing commercial networks in the rice trade -- Part II. Ulam: What you eat with rice? Vegetables, fruit, and other garden produce -- Fishing and aquaculture -- "Generations of hustlers": Fowl and swine in Manila -- Beef, cattle husbandy, and rinderpest -- Part III. Fluids and fashions. Fluide of life: Water and milk -- Foreign fashions: Flour and coffee versus cocoa -- Part IV. Wartime provisioning and mass starvation. Subsistence and starvation in World War II, 1941-1945.