On an Empty Stomach
Subtitle: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781501748653
Subjects: Humanitarian assistance; Starvation; Emergency mass feeding; Food relief
Description: "This book examines the practical techniques humanitarians have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian soup kitchens to space-age, high-protein foods. Tracing the evolution of these techniques since the start of the nineteenth century, the book argues that humanitarianism is not a simple story of progress and improvement, but is profoundly shaped by sociopolitical conditions"--