Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780429198083
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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Subjects: Humanities; Class and Work; Health and Welfare; Crime and Punishment; States of Mind; Family and Demography; Agencies and Institutions; Race and Empire; Gender and Sexuality; History; Religion; Poverty; Standards of Living; The Legal System; Knowledge; Social Groups; Population; Philanthropy; Local State; The British Diaspora; Gender Roles and Stereotypes; Welfare; Death and Dying; Public Health; Medical Care; Political Beliefs and Ideologies; Religious Denominations; Concepts of Society; Empire at Home; Family; Education; Working Conditions; National State; Feminism and Women''s Movement; British History; Modern History 1750-1945; History Reference; Social & Cultural History; Religious History; Judiciary; Social Investigation; Middle Classes; Working Classes; Irish Great Famine; Local government; Militia; Poor Relief; Emigration; Slavery; Refugees; Wages; Tax; Poor law;


This volume examines the rhetorics used around race and famine in the colonies vis-à-vis the persistence of hunger and poverty in the island nation/empire. As William Booth reminded the British in his aptly titled In Darkest England (1890), one need not look further than London's underbelly to find intractable hunger.

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


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