ISBN:
9781469607702
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 300 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Veit, Helen Zoe Modern food, moral food
DDC:
362.1
Keywords:
Diet history
;
Body Image
;
Food history
;
Food Habits psychology
;
History, 20th Century
;
Nutritional Requirements
;
Social Conditions history
;
Diet / United States
;
Food habits / United States
;
Ernährungsgewohnheit
;
USA
;
Ernährung
;
Geschichte 1910-1939
;
USA
;
Ernährung
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
National willpower : American asceticism and self-government -- Eating cats and dogs to feed the world : the progressive quest for rational food -- Food will win the world : food aid and American power -- A school for wives : home economics and the modern housewife -- A corn-fed nation : race, diet, and the eugenics of nutrition -- Americanizing the American diet : immigrant cuisines and not-so-foreign foods -- The triumph of the will : the progressive body and the thin ideal
Description / Table of Contents:
National willpower : American asceticism and self-government -- Eating cats and dogs to feed the world : the progressive quest for rational food -- Food will win the world : food aid and American power -- A school for wives : home economics and the modern housewife -- A corn-fed nation : race, diet, and the eugenics of nutrition -- Americanizing the American diet : immigrant cuisines and not-so-foreign foods -- The triumph of the will : the progressive body and the thin ideal.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 269-294
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=42532
