FEAST AND FAMINE by Leslie Clarkson, Margaret Crawford ( 9780198227519 )

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Title:

FEAST AND FAMINE
FOOD AND NUTRITION IN IRELAND 1500-1920

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Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0198227515

ISBN 13:

9780198227519

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

15 November, 2001

Pages:

336

Description:

This innovative title traces the history of food in Ireland from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. The authors explore the evolution of Irish diets over the centuries, in the process putting the role of the potato and the history of the famines into their proper perspectives.

Synopsis:

This book traces the history of food and famine in Ireland from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. It looks at what people ate and drank, and how this changed over time. The authors explore the economic and social forces which lay behind these changes as well as the more personal motives of taste, preference, and acceptability. They analyze the reasons why the potato became a major component of the diet for so many people during the eighteenth century as well as the diets of the middling and upper classes. This is not, however, simply a social history of food but it is a nutritional one as well, and the authors go on to explore the connection between eating, health, and disease. They look at the relationship between the supply of food and the growth of the population and then finally, and unavoidably in any history of the Irish and food, the issue of famine, examining first its likelihood and then its dreadful reality when it actually occurred.

Illustrations:

numerous graphs and tables

Publication:

Imprint:

Oxford University Press

Returns:

Non-returnable

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