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Plenty and want : a social history of diet in England from 1815 to the present day

Title
Plenty and want : a social history of diet in England from 1815 to the present day / John Burnett.
Author
Burnett, John
Publication
London : Nelson, 1966

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Description
x, 296 pages illustrations
Subject
  • Diet > Great Britain
  • Food consumption > Great Britain
  • Nutrition
  • Diet > history
  • Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
  • Alimentation > Grande-Bretagne
  • Aliments > Consommation > Grande-Bretagne
  • Diet
  • Food consumption
  • Diet > Great Britain
  • Food consumption > Great Britain
  • Great Britain
  • UNITED KINGDOM
  • FOOD CONSUMPTION
  • HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
  • DIET
  • NUTRITION
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents
pt. 1. 1815-50. England in transition -- The agricultural laborer -- The town worker -- The food of the rich -- Food adulteration -- pt. 2. 1850-1914. The standard of living -- Rural England : romance and reality -- Urban England : poverty and progress -- High living -- The quality of food -- pt. 3. 1914 to the present day. The First World War -- Between the wars -- The Second World War -- Since 1945.
LCCN
66070181
OCLC
  • ocm01650294
  • 1650294
  • SCSB-427566
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library