 | Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century Subjects: Humanities; Agencies and Institutions; Health and Welfare; Rural and Urban Life; States of Mind; Class and Work; Family and Demography; Crime and Punishment; Gender and Sexuality; Race and Empire; Recreation and Consumption; History; Religion; National State; Welfare; Types of Towns and Cities; Political Beliefs and Ideologies; Communications; Working Conditions; Poverty; Social Groups; Local State; Varieties of Religious Belief ; Population; Crimes; Economic Developments; Feminism and Women''s Movement; Punishments; The British Diaspora; Philanthropy; The Legal System; Food and Diet; British History; Modern History 1750-1945; History Reference; Social & Cultural History; Religious History; Tax; Poor Relief; Press ; Wages; Working Classes; Poor law; Spiritualism; Unemployed; Workhouses; Living Conditions; Upper Classes; Judiciary; Militia; Radicalism; Policing; Capturing Dorothy Hartley's point that there was "a dislocation of the food supply " during the Industrial Revolution, which occurred through the enclosure movement, the poor laws, the game and corn laws (qtd. in Consuming Fictions 8), this section would begin with the date of Thomas Malthus's "Principle of Population" (1798) to capture voices invoked during the lead up to the Reform Bill of 1832. Gail Turley Houston, Professor, British and Irish Literary Studies, University of New Mexico, USA |
