On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief

Introduction : Humanitarian Approaches To Hunger -- From The Classical Soup Kitchen To The Irish Famine -- Justus Liebig And The Rise Of Nutritional Science -- Governing The Diet In Victorian Institutions -- Colonialism And Communal Strength -- Social Nutrition At The League Of Nations -- Military Feeding During World War Two -- The Medicalization Of Hunger And The Postwar Period -- High Modernism And The Development Decade -- Low Modernism After Biafra -- Small-scale Devices And The Low Modernist Legacy -- Conclusion : On An Empty Stomach. Tom Scott-smith. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.