Hunger: A Modern History

by James Vernon

Book Overview

Hunger is as old as history itself. Indeed, it appears to be a timeless and inescapable biological condition. And yet perceptions of hunger and of the hungry have changed over time and differed from place to place. Hunger has a history, which can now be told.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, hunger was viewed as an unavoidable natural phenomenon or as the fault of its lazy and morally flawed victims. By the middle of the twentieth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674026780
• ISBN13: 9780674026780
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.4"