Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780429198076
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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Subjects: Humanities; Health and Welfare; Class and Work; Agencies and Institutions; Family and Demography; States of Mind; Rural and Urban Life; Recreation and Consumption; Crime and Punishment; Race and Empire; History; Religion; Standards of Living; Poverty; Social Groups; Education; Philanthropy; Working Conditions; Population; Political Beliefs and Ideologies; Types of Towns and Cities; Welfare; Food and Diet; National State; Local State; Crimes; Death and Dying; Punishments; The British Diaspora; Economic Developments; The Legal System; British History; Modern History 1750-1945; History Reference; Social & Cultural History; Religious History; Living Conditions; Working Classes; Middle Classes; Wages; Radicalism; Workhouses; London; Poor Relief; Irish Great Famine; Armed Forces; Local government; Tax;


This volume examines the sub-topics on the use of the metaphor of hunger to describe the condition of women as well as to a sub-topic on invisible poverty and hunger after Chartism failed. As Disraeli noted, there were still two Englands "fed by a different food."

Gail Turley Houston, Professor, British and Irish Literary Studies, University of New Mexico, USA


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