Research Catalog

Title

The Origins and development of food policies in Europe / edited by John Burnett and Derek J. Oddy.

Publication

London ; New York : Leicester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Burnett, John, 1925-2006.
• Oddy, Derek J.

Description

vi, 265 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Contains the edited papers from the International Commission for Research into European Food History conference held in 1991 at Brunel University, West Germany. The conference was devoted to the development of European food policies, principally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Several of the papers illustrate the significance of philanthropy in the initiation of food policies, others illustrate the voluntary initiatives for the feeding of poor schoolchildren in The Netherlands and England. Another paper demonstrates the ways in which scientists began to be incorporated into some sectors of the British food industry between 1870 and 1940, especially into some of the newer consumer industries where quality control was particularly important. Several papers are concerned with the introduction of new foods, illustrating how, in general, food habits are remarkably conservative and resistant to change; others illustrate the administrative difficulties of establishing rationing systems in the First World War.

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Nutrition policy > Europe > History > 19th century > Congresses
• Nutrition policy > Europe > History > 20th century > Congresses
• Diet > Europe > History > 19th century > Congresses
• Diet > Europe > History > 20th century > Congresses
• Food supply > Government policy > History > Europe > 19th century > Congresses
• Food supply > Government policy > History > Europe > 20th century > Congresses
• Nutrition Policy > history
• Food Supply > history
• Diet > history
• Politique nutritionnelle
• Politique alimentaire
• UE/CE Etats membres
• Histoire
• Diet
• Food supply > Government policy
• Nutrition policy
• Ernährungspolitik
• Voedselvoorziening
• Nutrition policy > Europe > History
• Diet > Europe > History
• Food supply > Government policy > History. > Europe
• Europe
• Europe
• Europa

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Black bread and social peace : Italy's dietary politics during the First World War / Maria Concetta Dentoni -- The rationing system in Bohemia during the First World War / Lydia Petránová -- The policy of survival : food, the state and social relations in Belgium, 1914-1921 / Peter Scholliers -- The rise and decline of school meals in Britain, 1860-1990 / John Burnett -- Feeding schoolchildren in the Netherlands : conflict between state and family responsibilities / Adel P. den Hartog -- The political history of Norwegian nutrition policy / Thor Øivind Jensen -- Hygiene and the control of food in Finnish towns at the turn of the century : a case study from Helsinki / Marjatta Hietala -- Quality control and research : the role of scientists in the British food industry, 1870-1939 / Sally M. Horrocks.
• Food adulteration and the beginnings of uniform food legislation in late nineteenth-century Germany / Hans J. Teuteberg -- Food policies in Sweden during the worlds wars / Matts Essemyr -- The beginnings of potato cultivation in Transylvania and Hungary : government policy and spontaneous process / Eszter Kisbán -- Sugar versus saccharine : sweetener policy before World War I / Christoph Maria Merki -- The workhouse diet in Ireland before and during the Great Famine / E. Margaret Crawford -- The care of the poor by the charity institutions of the Protestant Augsburgian community in Warsaw from the eighteenth to the twentieth century / Hanna Krajewska -- Diet in Sweden during industrialization, 1870-1939 / Mats L.W. Morell -- The EC's policies and its food / Alan Swinbank.

ISBN

• 0718514742
• 9780718514747
• 071851694X
• 9780718516949

LCCN

93005647

OCLC

• ocm28494977
• 28494977
• SCSB-2006790

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library