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Modern food, moral food : self-control, science, and the rise of modern American eating in the early twentieth century

Title
Modern food, moral food : self-control, science, and the rise of modern American eating in the early twentieth century / Helen Zoe Veit.
Author
Veit, Helen Zoe
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]

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Description
xiii, 300 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-294) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 16-78
ISBN
  • 9781469626475
  • 1469626470
LCCN
2012049092
OCLC
2012049092
Author
Veit, Helen Zoe, author.
Title
Modern food, moral food : self-control, science, and the rise of modern American eating in the early twentieth century / Helen Zoe Veit.
Publisher
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-294) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 16-78
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