Food and the City in Europe since 1800
By: edited by Peter Atkins, Peter Lumnel, and Derek J. Oddy.
Contributors: Atkins, P. J.; Lumnel, Peter.; Oddy, Derek J.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754649892
Subjects: Food  habits -- Europe, Western -- History; Food supply -- Europe, Western -- History; Food -- Political aspects -- Europe, Western; Urbanization -- Europe -- History; Europe, Western -- History; Europe, Western -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Food and the city / Peter J. Atkins and Derek J. Oddy; title: Urbanization and nutrition : historical research reconsidered / Hans Jürgen Teuteberg; title: "A tale of two cities" : a comparison of food supply in London and Paris in the 1850s / Peter J. Atkins; title: Urbanization and dietary change in Mediterranean Europe : Barcelona, 1870-1935 / Roser Nicolau-Nos and Josep Pujol-Andreu; title: Food science, food politics : Max Rubner and "rational nutrition" in fin-de-siècle Berlin / Corinna Treitel; title: How to feed three million inhabitants : Berlin in the first years after the Second World War, 1945-1948 / Jürgen Schmidt; title: Food fraud and the big city : Brussels' responses to food anxieties in the nineteenth century / Peter Scholliers; title: Food quality in London and the rise of the public analyst, 1870-1939 / Derek Oddy; title: 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; title: The "war against food adulteration" : municipal food monitoring and citizen self-help associations in Germany, 1870s-1880s / Vera Hierholzer; title: The discovery of vitamins and its impact on the food industry : the issue of tinned sweetened condensed skim milk, 1890-1940 / Adel den Hartog; title: First-class restaurants and luxury food stores : the emergence of the Soviet culture of consumption in the 1930s / Jukka Gronow; title: A shop window of the regime : the position of Prague as the capital in the preferential supply system of selected Czechoslovakian cities, 1950-1970 / Martin Franc; title: Born-in-the-city : the supermarket in Germany / Peter Lummel; title: The changing position of exotic foods in post-war Amsterdam / Anneke H. van Otterloo; title: The immigrant impact upon London's food since c. 1850 / Panikos Panayi; title: Scientists at the table : the cultural significance of scientists' festive meals in Berlin, 1830-1940 / Ulrike Thoms; title: Reforming diet at the end of the nineteenth century in Europe / Alain Drouard; title: Turtle soup and water porridge : some social and cultural perspectives on food habits in the city of Oslo, 1860-2000 / Virginie Amilien; title: Food markets in the city of Bordeaux from the 1960s until today : historical evolution and anthropological aspects / Isabelle Téchoueyres; title: Conclusion / Peter Atkins and Derek Oddy.